On 3 Dec 2011, at 21:57, Scott Doty wrote: > On 12/03/2011 12:14 PM, Scott van Looy wrote: >> On 3 Dec 2011, at 15:56, Scott Doty wrote: >> >>> On 12/03/2011 04:30 AM, Scott van Looy wrote: >>>> Isn't there supposed to be an initramfs for 3.1.2-1? >>> My system has: >>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15945815 Dec 1 21:24 >>> initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img >>> >>> So yes, you should have one. >>> >>>> Is this a bug? >>> Depends. If you used preupgrade to move from f15 to f16, it's probably >>> a bug. If you used yum to do so, I'm not sure that that is an >>> "approved" method of upgrading...one does so at their own risk. >> I did. It's been doing this for a little while now, I just wanted to double check the new kernel is the same. >> What's new is that it didn't even tell me there was an error this time…I thought it might have just worked :) >> >>>> If there's supposed to be one, if so, how can I generate one? Once I have, do I need to reinstall grub? >>>> >>> You could use dracut to build the initrd, but you're probably better off >>> re-installing the kernel package. Something like: >>> >>> $ su - >>> # yumdownloader kernel >>> # rpm -ivh --force kernel.package.file.name.rpm >> I tried yum reinstall kernel and got the same error. > > What error? (You didn't mention one before.) Sorry, for the whole of F15 I was getting an error when upgrading. Installing : kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 1/1 Non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failure in rpm package kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 Installed: kernel.x86_64 0:3.1.2-1.fc16 Complete! Which in itself is a lie, as it leaves the system unbootable... > > Also, you might try using the rpm command, unless you'd rather not. ;) kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm | 24 MB 00:03 [root@novak ~]# rpm -ivh --force kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:kernel ########################################### [100%] Usage: /sbin/dracut [OPTION]... <initramfs> <kernel-version> ...... the whole of dracut's help file ..... mkinitrd failed warning: %posttrans(kernel-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 I have no idea what would cause dracut to fail in this way. I can only think maybe environment settings or something? > >>> You don't need to re-install grub, but you should double-check grub.conf >>> before rebooting to the new kernel. >> I currently have grub and grub2 - how can I tell which my system is using? Or do I just amend grub2 then run grub2-install /dev/sda? > > I am not sure what the status of grub2 is -- and as I said before, I'm a > grub2 noob. ;) > > But you can find out the version of grub installed on /dev/sda with: > > # file - < /dev/sda > > (You need the dash to tell file(1) to read from stdin). /dev/stdin: x86 boot sector, LInux i386 boot LOader; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, stage2 address 0x2000, stage2 segment 0x200; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 208782 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x83, starthead 0, startsector 208845, 117210240 sectors; partition 3: ID=0x83, starthead 254, startsector 117420032, 78137344 sectors; partition 4: ID=0x5, starthead 254, startsector 195559245, 390508020 sectors, code offset 0x63 bash-4.2# Not sure if that's grub or grub2, mind ;) > >>> Also, I do believe f16 includes a move to grub2 -- at least, the tools >>> are installed after I ran preupgrade& upgraded. But my system was left >>> still using grub. That's not such a bad thing, since the grub2.conf >>> syntax has completely changed, making us all grub noobs again. >>> >>> There's also a wiki page somewhere that talks about post-upgrade >>> cleanups one should perform to make sure old packages are thoroughly >>> removed...ask in #fedora about that, or maybe someone will post the link. >> Yeah, I followed all that. >> I was given some advice a while back to run dracut in sh -x - that works for me (but installing the rpm in sh -x doesn't work for me) >> But it doesn't work in bash. >> >> /sbin/dracut initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img 3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 in bash just prints out the help associated with dracut, as if I'd not given it any arguments. >> sh -x /sbin/dracut initramfs-3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img 3.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 works >> >> I have no real idea what the issue could be, if you or anyone else has any suggestions it'd be appreciated! >> > > Is the error you mentioned earlier from dracut? Might want to check to > ensure you have one (and only one) dracut installed: > > $ rpm -qa | grep dracut > dracut-013-18.fc16.noarch dracut-013-19.fc16.noarch yup. I've checked through the dracut.conf file, it's the default, but I have the following line in it: # install local /etc/mdadm.conf mdadmconf="yes" # install local /etc/lvm/lvm.conf lvmconf="yes" /etc/lvm.conf exists, /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't and yum whatprovides /etc/mdadm.conf gives me nothing. I don't know if that would cause this behaviour though. Am perplexed and confused :) Scott -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
