Description of problem: Installing a new kernel always gives errors (warnings?) like this: Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Check Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing : kernel-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64 1/1 dracut-install: ERROR: failed to create directory '/var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE/usr/lib64/plymouth/' dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/usr/lib64/plymouth//text.so' E: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE /usr/lib64/plymouth//text.so /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE dracut-install: ERROR: failed to create directory '/var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE/etc/plymouth/' dracut-install: ERROR: installing '/etc/plymouth//plymouthd.conf' E: /usr/lib/dracut/dracut-install -D /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE /etc/plymouth//plymouthd.conf /var/tmp/initramfs.RizSCE Verifying : kernel-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64 1/1 Installed: kernel.x86_64 0:3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18 Complete! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-023-2.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-0.8.5.1-3.fc18.x86_64 Various kernels including kernel-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% (tried it twice) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install a kernel using yum. 2. 3. Actual results: Errors shown above. Expected results: No errors. Additional info: I haven't tried booting this kernel. The initramfs appears normal sized: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19598183 Aug 28 12:06 initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64.img
$ rpm -q dracut plymouth dracut-023-21.git20120823.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64 Does it work with these recent ones? Test: # dracut -v --force If you still experience those error messages, can you please attach the stderr output dracut-debug.log of: # dracut --debug --force 2> dracut-debug.log
I have a different version of plymouth ... dracut-023-21.git20120823.fc18.x86_64 plymouth-0.8.6.2-0.2012.07.23.fc18.x86_64 Anyway with the new version of dracut the error message seems to have gone (I didn't try updating the kernel however). $ sudo dracut -v --force I: *** Including module: i18n *** I: *** Including module: plymouth *** I: *** Including module: btrfs *** I: *** Including module: crypt *** I: *** Including module: dm *** I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules I: *** Including module: dmraid *** I: *** Including module: kernel-modules *** I: Omitting driver nfs_acl I: Omitting driver nfs I: Omitting driver nfsv2 I: Omitting driver nfsv3 I: Omitting driver nfsv4 I: Omitting driver nfs_layout_nfsv41_files I: Omitting driver objlayoutdriver I: Omitting driver blocklayoutdriver I: Omitting driver nfsd I: Omitting driver lockd I: *** Including module: lvm *** I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules I: *** Including module: mdraid *** I: *** Including module: multipath *** I: Skipping udev rule: 40-multipath.rules I: Skipping program $env{MPATH_SBIN_PATH}/multipath using in udev rule 62-multipath.rules as it cannot be found I: *** Including module: resume *** I: *** Including module: rootfs-block *** I: *** Including module: terminfo *** I: *** Including module: udev-rules *** I: *** Including module: virtfs *** I: *** Including module: biosdevname *** I: *** Including module: systemd *** I: *** Including module: usrmount *** I: *** Including module: base *** I: *** Including module: fs-lib *** I: *** Including module: shutdown *** I: *** Including modules done *** I: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware *** I: *** Installing kernel module dependencies and firmware done *** I: *** Resolving executable dependencies *** I: *** Resolving executable dependencies done*** I: *** hardlinking files *** I: *** hardlinking files done *** I: *** Creating image file *** I: *** Creating image file done *** I: Wrote /boot/initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64.img: I: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 19511643 Sep 12 08:58 /boot/initramfs-3.6.0-0.rc3.git2.1.fc18.x86_64.img