[Mageia-dev] Boot borked cause procfs :((

[JA Magallón]

On 01/08/2013 02:01 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Colin Guthrie skrev 8.1.2013 14:28:
>> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 08/01/13 12:11 did gyre and gimble:
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> After updating cauldron to latest packages, I rebuilt manually the boot
>>> initrd with dracut -f. After that, the system does not boot:
>>>
>>> mount: /proc: filesystem mounted, but mount(8) failed: No such file or
>>> directory
>>> Cannot mount proc on /proc! Compile the kernel with CONFIG_PROC_FS!
>>>
>>> And then a kernel panic...
>>>
>
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8614
>

Thanks, after glibc/util-linux upgrade, I regenerated initrds and all
works fine.

Goog job !!

>
>>> I think that I have boxes that boot because I have not rebuilt the initrd,
>>> but I don't dare to try one other :).
>>>
>>> Any ideas o how to debug/fix this ?
>>
>> I heard this is due to new util-linux. My initrd was from 3rd Jan, but
>> util-linux installed on 5th Jan. I've regenerated my initrd so will
>> reboot sometime today to see if it now breaks with the new version of mount.
>>
>
> It will.
>
> I hope you have a backup initrd to use.
>
>
>  > We maybe need to patch mount? I don't think it's really the kernel
>> that's at fault here.
>
> I will investigte it tonight..
>
> --
> Thomas
>
>


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