[Mageia-dev] Something is messed up in theme upgrades.. (initrd.img desymlinkified)

[Anssi Hannula]

04.04.2012 03:09, Anssi Hannula kirjoitti:
> 03.04.2012 16:41, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With a memory of the infamous "initrd killer" problem that is still
>> lurking in the background somewhere, something related to theme updates
>> is messing things up:
>>
>> e.g. see the before and after listings for my /boot
>>
>>
>> [colin at jimmy code (master)]$ ll /boot
>> total 39784
> [...]
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  3 09:22 initrd.img ->
>> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2.img
> [...]
> 
>>
>> After:
>>
>> [colin at jimmy code (master)]$ ll /boot
> [...]
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7556648 Apr  3 14:33 initrd.img
> [...]
> 
> Reproduced:
> 
> root      9723  0.0  0.0  25760  1372 pts/11   S+   03:02   0:00  |
>               \_ /bin/sh /usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/switch-themes
> Mageia-Default
> root      9745  0.2  0.2  93496 20724 pts/11   S+   03:02   0:00  |
>                   \_ /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/bootloader-config --action
> update-splash
> root     30133  0.0  0.0  25760  1312 pts/11   S+   03:06   0:00  |
>                       \_ /bin/sh
> /usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash /boot/initrd.img 800
> root     30143  0.0  0.0  25760  1340 pts/11   S+   03:06   0:00  |
>                           \_ /bin/sh
> /usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash-raw /boot/initrd.img
> Mageia-Default
> 
> => bork
> 
> So it seems like some recent change in DrakX which causes it to call
> make-boot-splash even for /boot/initrd.img...

Actually... it would be my recentish change/fix in
/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash-raw in which $foo.img is
now replaced with
# gzip > $foo.img.tmp
# mv -f $foo.img.tmp $foo.img
while it previously was a direct
# gzip > $foo.img

I've now added a "readlink -f" in the beginning of the script so that it
will operate on the symlink target directly, in bootsplash-3.3.8. Thanks
for noticing this.

-- 
Anssi Hannula