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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I mistakenly had two entries for / in /etc/fstab. As a result, when I installed an updated kernel RPM, I got the following mysterious message: # rpm -iv redhat-9up/athlon/kernel-2.4.20-9.athlon.rpm Preparing packages for installation... kernel-2.4.20-9 awk: cmd. line:1: $2 == "rhl9 awk: cmd. line:1: ^ unterminated string I tracked this down to the script /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: 71 label=$(echo $rootdevice | cut -d= -f2) 72 device=$(echo "showlabels" | /sbin/nash --force --quiet | 73 awk '$2 == "'$label'" {print $1}') This last line becomes malformed after the substitution of $label because $label contains multiple tokens. To make the code more robust, enclose the variable reference in double quotes: 73 awk '$2 == "'"$label"'" {print $1}') This should prevent the very obscure message but does nothing to properly report the problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-3.4.42-1 How reproducible: Didn't try but should happen every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1.have two entries in /etc/fstab for / 2.directly or indirectly run mkinitrd 3. Additional info:
Made it so that we only look at the first entry for / in /etc/fstab, even though I consider it to be a broken setup.