usrmove problem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Bug submitted:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=786261