Problems updating the to the last kernel
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 18:41:53 UTC 2007
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and has been revoked.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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