Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 699553
Output "Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf" during kernel update
Last modified: 2011-05-23 17:19:22 EDT
Description of problem: Output "Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf" is shown during kernel update. From a short search, this comes from /sbin/mkinitrd. Normally, RPM-based updates or installations should not output anything, thus this is treated as a bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-68.el5_6.1 How reproducible: Everytime, see above and below. Actual results: [...] Running Transaction Installing : kernel 1/4 Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf Installing : kmod-microsoft-hyperv-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 2/4 Updating : microsoft-hyperv 3/4 Cleanup : microsoft-hyperv 4/4 [...] Please ignore the microsoft-hyperv modules, they are not related to this. Expected results: No output "Modulefile is /etc/modprobe.conf" during kernel install/upgrade. Additional info: I think, the "echo" should be either a "vecho" or the line should not exist at all in /sbin/mkinitrd (overleft from debug?).
I've cross-filed this issue as Service Request 00457059 and 00457061 (myself and a customer's one).
This is caused by the patch for bug 564392, which should have use vecho.
Created attachment 495156 [details] mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-bz699553-correct-echo-by-vecho.patch