Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 595921
grubby SIGSEGV on kernel installation.
Last modified: 2011-06-27 12:39:27 EDT
I just performed a yum upgrade (after rpm -hvU fedora-release-13) of a (very minimal) Fedora 12 system to Fedora 13. The upgrade went just fine, with the exception of grubby segfaulting and failing to update grub.conf with the new kernel. Here's a log of what happens when I uninstall and reinstall the Fedora 13 kernel: [root@gaia ~]# uname -a Linux gaia 2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Apr 30 19:46:25 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@gaia ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 13 (Goddard) [root@gaia ~]# yum list extras Extra Packages cups-windows.i386 1:6.0-1 installed kernel.x86_64 2.6.32.12-115.fc12 installed [root@gaia ~]# rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 [root@gaia ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 [root@gaia ~]# yum upgrade Setting up Upgrade Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.33.4-95.fc13 set to be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Installing: kernel x86_64 2.6.33.4-95.fc13 updates 21 M Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Install 1 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total download size: 21 M Installed size: 103 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64.rpm | 21 MB 06:33 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum. Installing : kernel-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 1/1 grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (8): grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (8): /sbin/grubby[0x40805f] /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x32a40)[0x7f5ca09c7a40] /lib64/libc.so.6(+0x1279ba)[0x7f5ca0abc9ba] /sbin/grubby[0x40695e] /sbin/grubby[0x406ae3] /sbin/grubby[0x407e58] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd)[0x7f5ca09b3c5d] /sbin/grubby[0x401709] Installed: kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.33.4-95.fc13 Complete! [root@gaia ~]# cd /boot/grub/ [root@gaia grub]# cat grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md1 rhgb quiet acpi_enforce_resources=lax # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/md0 default=0 timeout=30 #splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu password --md5 $1$xxxxxxxx$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx title Fedora (2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64 ro root=/dev/md1 acpi_enforce_resources=lax SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us initrd /initramfs-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.x86_64.img title Memtest86 root (hd1,0) kernel /memtest86+-4.00 [root@gaia grub]# Clearly: title Fedora (2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64 ro root=/dev/md1 acpi_enforce_resources=lax SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us initrd /initramfs-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.x86_64.img is missing.
The above was with an x86_64 box. I've now had the exact same thing come up on an i686 install: # yum upgrade (to F13, otherwise than the error message below the upgrade process is totally smooth and clean - this box was pretty much a virgin [but fully uptodate] F12 install) Installing : kernel-PAE-2.6.33.4-95.fc13.i686 454/934 grubby recieved SIGSEGV! Backtrace (8): /sbin/grubby[0x804f898] [0x157400] /lib/libc.so.6(+0x773ca)[0xd353ca] /sbin/grubby[0x804e1d4] /sbin/grubby[0x804e32d] /sbin/grubby[0x804f644] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6)[0xcd4cc6] /sbin/grubby[0x80490a1]
Version of grubby in question (I'll try installing and testing some older versions as well): # rpm -q grubby grubby-7.0.13-1.fc13.x86_64 (or) grubby-7.0.13-1.fc13.i686
Interestingly it turns out I've been running with exactly that version of grubby on an F12 development laptop (with some mesa + kernel packages from F13 for better nvidia support) for a while now, and didn't notice any problems.
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