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

[John Ellson]

Satish Balay wrote:

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>On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
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>>BTW: I notice the following error in today's update:
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>>--
>>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
>>--
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>Ok - something causes the newly installed kernel (538) not to boot. I
>get:
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>---
>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!
>---
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>And I get similar error wth kerne-535 installed which was installed
>nash-2.1.8..
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>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.
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>And 'lsmod' shows only module loaded are 'ext3' and 'jbd' (no
>networking - so I can't cut/paste)
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>Something is seriously broken..
>
>Satish
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In addition to backing down to kernel-533, I also backed out to
initscripts-7.73-1 and module-init-tools-3.0-2
(not sure that both are broken, but one of them cleared up the module issues.)

I did not back out mkinitrd.

I had to back out to xorg-x11-6.7.0-7.2 because of the i810 graphics issue.

And I backed out to metacity-2.8.4-1 because my desktop was still funky.  (not 100% sure
about this last being a real problem.)

Basically, there are multiple breakages in the latest updates.

Don't lose your old rpms.

John