rawhide report: 20060907 changes: kernel won't install

[ronald]

Paul Dickson wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 06:00:28 -0400, buildsys at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>> kernel-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
>> ------------------------
>> * Wed Sep 06 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
>> - Undo rhel5 xen patch for relocatable.
>>
>> * Wed Sep 06 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
>> - AGP support for Intel I965
>>
>> * Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
>> - Update xenfb based on upstream review
> 
> [...]
> 
>> mkinitrd-5.1.11-1
>> -----------------
>> * Wed Sep 06 2006 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 5.1.11-1
>> - Pull in bdevid properly (not two sources any more)
>> - Lots of minor bugfixes, leak fixups, etc.
>> - Updates for new iScsi userland (katzj)
>> - ata and usb device id probes in bdevid
>> - preliminary work for boot-time device identification.
>> - Fixes for network driver selection (katzj)
> 
> This won't install on one of my systems, an Athlon 1333 Mhz:
> 
>   Installing: kernel                       ####################### [11/32] 
> *** glibc detected *** /sbin/nash: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08283210 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> [0x8186bf7]
> [0x8189b7d]
> [0x8063a69]
> [0x805cd82]
> [0x805d93b]
> [0x805ab8a]
> [0x805ace0]
> [0x805ae34]
> [0x804bfd6]
> [0x804f0b2]
> [0x804f597]
> [0x815d3c7]
> [0x8048131]
> ======= Memory map: ========
> 08048000-08263000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 803613     /sbin/nash
> 08263000-0826c000 rwxp 0021b000 03:02 803613     /sbin/nash
> 0826c000-08287000 rwxp 0826c000 00:00 0 
> 093d7000-09487000 rwxp 093d7000 00:00 0 
> b7e00000-b7e25000 rwxp b7e00000 00:00 0 
> b7e25000-b7f00000 --xp b7e25000 00:00 0 
> b7fb0000-b7fb1000 r-xp b7fb0000 00:00 0          [vdso]
> bfeec000-bff02000 rw-p bfeec000 00:00 0          [stack]
> *** glibc detected *** /sbin/grubby: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00cf9150 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6[0xc24ecd]
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xc285a0]
> /sbin/grubby[0x80a9ea9]
> /sbin/grubby[0x8057002]
> /sbin/grubby[0x8057bbb]
> /sbin/grubby[0x8054e0a]
> /sbin/grubby[0x8054f60]
> /sbin/grubby[0x80550b4]
> /sbin/grubby[0x804f6dc]
> /sbin/grubby[0x804f922]
> /sbin/grubby[0x805086a]
> /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xbd4f2c]
> /sbin/grubby[0x804ae21]
> ======= Memory map: ========
> 00977000-00990000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 131521     /lib/ld-2.4.90.so
> 00990000-00991000 r-xp 00018000 03:02 131521     /lib/ld-2.4.90.so
> 00991000-00992000 rwxp 00019000 03:02 131521     /lib/ld-2.4.90.so
> 00bbf000-00cf6000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 132152     /lib/libc-2.4.90.so
> 00cf6000-00cf8000 r-xp 00137000 03:02 132152     /lib/libc-2.4.90.so
> 00cf8000-00cf9000 rwxp 00139000 03:02 132152     /lib/libc-2.4.90.so
> 00cf9000-00cfc000 rwxp 00cf9000 00:00 0 
> 00d59000-00d64000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 136388     /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.1-20060828.so.1
> 00d64000-00d65000 rwxp 0000a000 03:02 136388     /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.1-20060828.so.1
> 08048000-080ed000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 805101     /sbin/grubby
> 080ed000-080f1000 rwxp 000a5000 03:02 805101     /sbin/grubby
> 080f1000-080fb000 rwxp 080f1000 00:00 0 
> 09b2d000-09bd9000 rwxp 09b2d000 00:00 0 
> b7e00000-b7e21000 rwxp b7e00000 00:00 0 
> b7e21000-b7f00000 --xp b7e21000 00:00 0 
> b7fac000-b7fae000 rwxp b7fac000 00:00 0 
> b7fce000-b7fcf000 r-xp b7fce000 00:00 0          [vdso]
> bfb31000-bfb47000 rw-p bfb31000 00:00 0          [stack]
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 90:  9805 Aborted                 $grubby --add-kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version $INITRD --copy-default $makedefault --title "$title" ${mbkernel:+--add-multiboot="$mbkernel"} ${mbargs:+--mbargs="$mbargs"} --args="root=$rootdevice $kernargs" --remove-kernel="TITLE=$title"
>   Updating  : policycoreutils              ####################### [12/32] 
> 
> BTW - Why is my yum packages directory suddenly empty?
> 
> 	-Paul
> 
cat /etc/yum.conf
keepcache=0 => del packages after install (*default*)
keepcache=1 => hold ...

	ronald