usrmove problem

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:44 -0500, Tom H wrote:

> >> Also, the problem is in your initramfs, not the kernel itself.
> >>
> >> Harald?
> >
> > I was about to follow up. I tried rebuilding the rc6 kernel's
> > initramfs but there was no joy. I then managed to boot with the rc6
> > kernel using the rc4 initramfs.
> >
> > I've unpacked my the rc4 and rc6 initramfs's to take a look but have
> > had to go back to real work...
> 
> Unpacked initramfs-3.3.0-0.rc1.git4.1.fc17.i686.img to "~/rc4" and
> initramfs-3.3.0-0.rc1.git6.1.fc17.i686.img to "~/rc6":
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# find . -name 'libc.so.6'
> ./rc4/run/initramfs/lib/libc.so.6
> [root at localhost ~]#

The initramfs is generated on-the-fly when the kernel is installed. So I
suspect the bug here is correctly described as 'When installing any
kernel package after doing the /usr move updates, the generated
initramfs will not contain /lib/libc.so.6' - i.e. the actual kernel
package in question doesn't matter, it's rather that any attempt to
generate an initramfs after doing the /usr move will fail. This is
obviously a significant problem, if I'm correct.
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