Re: Problems after update to 5.5

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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 18:11 -0400, C Linus Hicks wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 01:20 -0400, JohnS wrote:
> > I am just wondering if any of you guys with the udev hang problem have
> > tried:
> > rpm -e the new kernel?  Then try to reinstall it via yum install.  You
> > should delete the new kernel from /var/cache/yum first.
> > 
> > Just a point in why I say that is I have seen several machines that have
> > yummed corrupt packages and bad repo metadata.  After pegging yum to
> > pull from a distinct mirror the problem has gone away.
> > 
> > John
> 
> How about this: I downloaded the new kernel rpm again manually then used
> rpm2cpio to load the files into a work directory then ran this script:
> 
> $ rpm -qlp ../kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | while read rl
> do
>   rstr=$(cmp $rl .$rl 2>&1)
>   rc=$?
>   if (( rc != 0 )); then
>     echo $rstr | grep -v "Is a directory" > /dev/null
>     rc=$?
>     if (( rc == 0 )); then
>       echo "Error: $rstr"
>     fi
>   fi
> done
> Error: cmp: ./boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img: No such file or directory
> Error: cmp: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/build: No such file or directory
> Error: cmp: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/source: No such file or directory
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And that would be correct because there are not there.  There generated
on the kernel install by the the rpm header that contains the mkinitrd
script in kernel-rt or kernel.spec.

John

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