Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 625667
version mismatch vmlinuz vs modules.dep when "setarch i386" on x86_64
Last modified: 2013-01-10 01:09:33 EST
Description of problem: When composing an install DVD for i686 by using "setarch i386" on x86_64, then the kernel version in isolinux/vmlinuz can be different from the one in initrd.img:/lib/modules/*/modules.dep. The resulting DVD will boot, but won't get very far because no modules can be loaded from initrd. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pungi-2.1.2-2.fc14.noarch How reproducible: twice today Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run on x86_64: setarch i386 /usr/bin/pungi \ -c /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-install-fedora.ks \ --destdir=$DESTDIR --name Fedora --ver $VERSION --nosource --force 2. mount -o ro,loop Fedora-14-i386-DVD.iso /mnt 3. cd /mnt/isolinux; file vmlinuz 4. gzip -dc initrd.img | cpio --list | grep modules.dep Actual results: vmlinuz: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 2.6.35.2-9.fc14.i686 (mockbuild, RO-rootFS, root_dev 0x902, swap_dev 0x3, Normal VGA modules/2.6.35-0.57.rc6.git1.fc14.i686/modules.dep.bin modules/2.6.35-0.57.rc6.git1.fc14.i686/modules.dep Note the version discrepancy: 2.6.35.2-9.fc14.i686 (kernel) 2.6.35-0.57.rc6.git1.fc14.i686 (modules.dep) Expected results: matching vmlinuz and initrd.img:.../modules.dep Additional info: Repositories were: repo --name=fedora-14 --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$releasever/$basearch/os repo --name=fedora-14-updates-testing --baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/ All files in /var/cache/pungi/*/* (except the "packages" directory) were removed before starting, just to try to be squeaky-clean about caching.
Doing a compose using setarch is not supported no expected to work. You need to use a full 32bit chroot in order to compose a 32bit tree on x86_64.