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(This is on CentOS 5.4, but the affected packages are AFAIK identical in RHEL 5.4, so reporting it here.) When updating to kernel 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 I got the following error messages on console: /sbin/scsi_id: option requires an argument -- s /sbin/scsi_id: option requires an argument -- s I suppose this is because new-kernel-pkg resolves the root device to e.g. "sda5" at least when finding it out from LABEL=/ mounts while nash-resolveDevice expects them in the form "/dev/sda5", returning nothing with the former and the empty string returned by it gets passed to scsi_id. mkinitrd is 5.1.19.6-54, nash 5.1.19.6-54. For this particular box this didn't seem to cause any problems, but I suppose it might for others. I applied the patch from bug 503567 thinking it might be related, but it didn't make a difference. I also hacked /sbin/mkinitrd's line 1412 from 'rootdevs="$rootdev"' to 'rootdevs="/dev/$rootdev"' and it got rid of the errors, but this probably isn't the right thing to do. The output of "bash -x /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 &>/tmp/nkp.txt" is attached. This is a Dell PowerEdge 2850 box, using hardware RAID, LABEL based mounts in /etc/fstab.
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Created attachment 515318 [details] new-kernel-pkg output Here goes. The command to generate this was: bash -x /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 &>/tmp/nkp.txt ...and I hacked /sbin/new-kernel-pkg's mkinitrd() to call /sbin/mkinitrd with "bash -x" so that what it does is included in the file as well.
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[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q mkinitrd mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54 mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54 [root@localhost ~]# rpm -ip kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64.rpm warning: kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186 /sbin/scsi_id: option requires an argument -- s /sbin/scsi_id: option requires an argument -- s [root@localhost ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-194.el5 [root@localhost ~]# yum update mkinitrd . . . [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q mkinitrd mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-75.el5 mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-75.el5 [root@localhost ~]# rpm -ip kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64.rpm warning: kernel-2.6.18-194.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186 [root@localhost ~]# Moving to VERIFIED.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0157.html