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

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 22:21 +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:07:29PM -0400, John Ellson wrote:
> > >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..
> 
> export GAWK_NO_DFA=1
> mkinitrd  -v -f /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.538.img 2.6.8-1.538
> 
> reboot and enjoy :-)

Or, alternately, downgrade back to gawk 3.1.3-9.  3.1.4 has been pulled
for now (bug is 131498)

Jeremy