[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/4/7 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
> 07.04.2012 20:59, imnotpc skrev:
>> On 04/07/2012 12:43 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>>> 2012/4/7 imnotpc<imnotpc at rock3d.net>:
>>>> On 04/07/2012 09:35 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>>>>> On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, imnotpc wrote:
>>>>>> I just discovered that when a new kernel package is installed the grub
>>>>>> menu entry is added to the bottom rather than the top. The result is that
>>>>>> the original kernel remains the default and new kernels not used. Most of my
>>>>>> systems are only accessed through ssh so I had no idea the new kernels
>>>>>> weren't being used and this only came to my attention today when another
>>>>>> update, probably dbus, broke the old kernel and hung all my boxes during
>>>>>> reboot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would think that if you install an update the expectation is that it
>>>>>> would be used by default. I haven't had time to check yet, but this may also
>>>>>> be the cause of other bugs I've been having. Is this a bug or intended
>>>>>> behavior?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Not so.  The default uses the symlinks for vmlinuz and initrd which are
>>>>> version-independent, and the kernel install redefines them to point to the
>>>>> new kernel.  The entry tacked on to the end uses the new versoins by name,
>>>>> and is there so that after the next new kernel comes along you'll have an
>>>>> entry to boot this one if you need to.
>>>>
>>>> So the first and last menu entry are the same most recent version? Then this
>>>> is probably a bug since the symlink entry won't boot but the entry at the
>>>> bottom that lists the version by name boots fine.
>>> Then something went wrong during installation of the new kernel. Could
>>> you please show the output of
>>>
>>> $ ls -l /boot
>>>
>> I don't think it effects this output, but just so you know I deleted
>> most of the unused entries from the grub menu and moved the most recent
>> version to the top so it would boot again if there was a power failure.
>> The curious thing is I expected vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 to be here
>> but it isn't. This box has received every update that has come out.
>>
>> [root at Cedar1 jalaramie]# ls -l /boot
>> total 20792
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     440 Apr  7 08:14 boot.backup.sda
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      27 Apr  7 08:17 config ->
>> config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  135041 Feb 16 09:36 config-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  136931 Apr  4 06:15 config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Mar 21 19:03 dracut/
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  537088 Apr  3 14:22 gfxmenu*
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Apr  7 08:14 grub/
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5715971 Apr  3 14:22 initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5733762 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      31 Apr  5 07:32 initrd-desktop.img ->
>> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
>
> You are missing the symlink initrd.img -> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
> that is used on default setups...

Yes, that's what I wanted to see the listing for.

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wobo