kernel/mkinitrd udpate broken? [Was: Missing in action...] (fwd)

[Satish Balay]

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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

> BTW: I notice the following error in today's update:
>
> --
> hal-cups-utils 100 % done 18/120
> Stopping cups: [  OK  ]
> Starting cups: [  OK  ]
> mkinitrd 100 % done 19/120
> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.23804: line 1:  5655 Segmentation fault      /sbin/modprobe loop 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
> kernel 100 % done 20/120
> --

Ok - something causes the newly installed kernel (538) not to boot. I
get:

---
Red Hat nash version 4.1.9 starting
insmod: error inserting '/lib/ext3.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module
ERROR /bin/insmod exited abnormally!
mount: error 19 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
---

And I get similar error wth kerne-535 installed which was installed
nash-2.1.8..

I'm able to boot to kernel-533 (which was working fine before the
updates/reboot) - but now I get a bunch of ext3 errors.

And 'lsmod' shows only module loaded are 'ext3' and 'jbd' (no
networking - so I can't cut/paste)

Something is seriously broken..

Satish