Problems updating the to the last kernel

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 01:06:56PM +0100, José Matos wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 	since Saturday I noticed that the update of kernel takes a long time, I 
 > noticed that grubby was running for more than 2 and a half hours. :-(
 > 
 > 	I killed grubby and the installation of other packages proceeded normally.
 > 
 > 	Now everytime that I try to update the kernel grubby takes forever and never 
 > updates /etc/grub.conf. :-(
 > 
 > 	As an example the command being executed by rpm scripts is:
 > # cat /proc/5860/cmdline
 > /sbin/grubby--add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3226.fc7--initrd/boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3226.fc7.img--copy-default--make-default--titleFedora 
 > (2.6.21-1.3226.fc7)--args=root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 --remove-kernel=TITLE=Fedora 
 > (2.6.21-1.3226.fc7)
 > 
 >   I had killed it after running at almost 100% CPU during an hour.
 > 
 >   Clearly this is not normal, what could it be the culprit?
 > 
 > PS: Note (as it can be seen from attempt to install the kernel) that I have 
 > DaveJ's repository configured for yum.

Downgrade to the previous version of mkinitrd.
The one that was in updates-testing (mkinitrd-6.0.9-6) was broken
and has been revoked.

	Dave

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