Recent Rawhide kernels unbootable?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 19:54:09 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Jerry James <loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to boot the last 3 Rawhide kernels,
> kernel-3.4.0-0.rc3.gitX.1.fc18.x86_64, where X = 2, 3, 4.  The kernel
> with X = 1 boots fine.  When I try to boot the other 3, I get dropped
> into a debug shell with dracut complaining about being unable to find
> various devices.  Today I got around to trying to figure out why.
> Manually running "new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --dracut
> --depmod --update 3.4.0-0.rc3.git4.1.fc18.x86_64" spewed a large
> number of lines like this:
>
> WARNING: /lib/modules/3.4.0-0.rc3.git4.1.fc18.x86_64/kernel/net/802/psnap.ko
> needs unknown symbol llc_sap_close

<snip>

> Have I done something wrong, or are the recent kernels busted?

There was a change in how modules were put into the -modules-extra
subpackage with those 3 builds.  It has since been fixed.

However, unless you needed those modules for booting for some
reason, I doubt that is actually the problem.

josh


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