Re: Can't install kernel 2.6.5-1.435.2.3

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:45:54AM +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > [root epo kernels]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.i686.rpm
> > Preparing...                ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >    1:kernel                 ###########################################
> > [100%]
> > /sbin/mkinitrd: line 294: /sbin/nash: No such file or directory
> > /sbin/mkinitrd: line 294: /sbin/nash: No such file or directory
> > /sbin/mkinitrd: line 294: /sbin/nash: No such file or directory
> > /sbin/mkinitrd: line 294: /sbin/nash: No such file or directory
> > no temporary directory could be found
> > mkinitrd failed
> > [root epo kernels]#
> >
> > /sbin/nash is a link to /sbin/nash-i386 which is not on the system.
> > What's in this file and how can I recreate it?
>
> On FC2 I see:
>
>    $ ls -l /sbin/nash
>    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 37476 May  6 18:50 /sbin/nash
>    $ file /sbin/nash
>    /sbin/nash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
>    $ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/nash
>    mkinitrd-3.5.22-1
>    $
>
> Note that FC2 nash is not a link.
>
> You should be able to reinstall nash with rpm.
> A surgeon might do the rpm -r or rpm2cpio set of tricks.
>
>    $ rpm -q --list mkinitrd
>    /sbin/grubby
>    /sbin/installkernel
>    /sbin/mkinitrd
>    /sbin/nash
>    /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
>    /usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
>    /usr/share/man/man8/mkinitrd.8.gz
>    /usr/share/man/man8/nash.8.gz

I've posted some of this info on this thread before - but here it is
again.

This problem has been noticed by 2 people so far (the original poster
& myself), so there is some messup somewhere - but it didn't happen
with everyone.

Not sure what the trigger was. My guess is one of the test kernel
installs messed things up..

The fix was to reinstall the mkinitrd.rpm - and then install the
newer updated kernel. I've used:

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs mkinitrd-3.5.22-1.i386.rpm

Satish