Bug 610466
| Summary: | mkinitrd has no option --force | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Miroslav Suchý <msuchy> |
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | Harald Hoyer <harald> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | atodorov, lkocman, pknirsch |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: |
Running mkinitrd alone does not override an existing initramfs image. When this is attempted, the message stated that the "--force" parameter should be used, but mkinitrd only supported the short version "-f" of this parameter. "--force" was added to mkinitrd as the long version.
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| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 11:53:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Running mkinitrd will not override an existing initramfs image. The error message of mkinitrd states to use the "--force" parameter, but mkinitrd does only support the short version "-f" of this parameter. "--force" was added to mkinitrd as the long version.
dracut --force test.img $(uname -r) worked for me with dracut-004-38.el6.noarch. (In reply to comment #6) > dracut --force test.img $(uname -r) worked for me with > dracut-004-38.el6.noarch. This bug is for "mkinitrd --force" .. not "dracut --force" Thanks for the notice. Tested this again: [root@localhost ~]# mkinitrd test.img $(uname -r) [root@localhost ~]# mkinitrd test.img $(uname -r) Will not override existing initramfs (/root/test.img) without --force [root@localhost ~]# mkinitrd --force test.img $(uname -r) [root@localhost ~]# echo $? 0 [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qf /sbin/mkinitrd dracut-004-39.el6.noarch
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-Running mkinitrd will not override an existing initramfs image. The error message of mkinitrd states to use the "--force" parameter, but mkinitrd does only support the short version "-f" of this parameter. "--force" was added to mkinitrd as the long version.+Running mkinitrd alone does not override an existing initramfs image. When this is attempted, the message stated that the "--force" parameter should be used, but mkinitrd only supported the short version "-f" of this parameter. "--force" was added to mkinitrd as the long version.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0523.html |
Description of problem: I run: $ mkinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64.img 2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64 and got this output: Will not override existing initramfs (/boot/initramfs-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64.img) without --force which is fair. So I add option --force on command line and I get: [msuchy@dri/~/rhn/spacewalk.pub{master}]$ mkinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64.img 2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64 --forceusage: mkinitrd [--version] [--help] [-v] [-f] [--preload <module>] [--image-version] [--with=<module>] <initrd-image> <kernel-version> (ex: mkinitrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64.img 2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64) If I use -f instead of --force, then it got accepted. So I would expect that in thet warning is not used --forced option (but -f) or that --force option is recognized as alias for -f Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qf `which mkinitrd` dracut-004-23.el6.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to regenerate initrd for you current kernerl 2. follow the warning and use option --force Actual results: --force is not recognized Expected results: --force is recognized or warning suggest -f instead of --force Additional info: