3.5.0 kernel problem

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 20:29:25 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Andre Robatino
<robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> David <dgboles <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> In all cases I did not get an initramfs. In all cases these kernels will
>> not boot.
>
> I have
>
> kernel-3.4.0-1.fc18.x86_64
> kernel-3.5.0-0.rc0.git11.1.fc18.x86_64
> kernel-3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64
>
> installed, I have an initramfs for all of them, and testing the latest one, it
> boots properly (most of the time I just boot into a non-debug kernel in runlevel
> 3, apply updates, and shut down). I see a different problem - for the latest
> 3.5.0 kernels, kernel-devel does not contain the file
> /usr/src/kernels/*/System.map. For example, when installing the latest kernel I
> saw
>
> Processing delta metadata
> /usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git11.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map: No such file or
> directory
> delta does not match installed data

That sounds like a deltarpm problem.  The kernel-devel package has that
file in it, and it's a normal file not a symlink or something.  If you
download the full RPM and install it via RPM (not yum, or disable the
deltarpm plugin) does it exist?

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package      Arch   Version                  Repository                   Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 kernel-devel x86_64 3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18
/kernel-devel-3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64
                                                                           28 M
Removing:
 kernel-devel x86_64 3.3.4-5.fc17             @updates-testing             28 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install  1 Package
Remove   1 Package

Total size: 28 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Check
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : kernel-devel-3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64                 1/2
  Cleanup    : kernel-devel-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64                             2/2
  Verifying  : kernel-devel-3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64                 1/2
  Verifying  : kernel-devel-3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64                             2/2

Removed:
  kernel-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.4-5.fc17

Installed:
  kernel-devel.x86_64 0:3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18

Complete!
[jwboyer at vader ~]$ ls
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map
[jwboyer at vader ~]$ ls -l
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2611877 Jun  2 08:16
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map
[jwboyer at vader ~]$ file
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map
/usr/src/kernels/3.5.0-0.rc0.git12.1.fc18.x86_64/System.map: ASCII text
[jwboyer at vader ~]$


josh


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