mkinitrd is failing when installing a new kernel

awillard69 · 02-13-2008, 09:05 AM

Please help me.

I'm trying to update to a new kernel, but it won't install successfully.

Code:

[root@pc-wip awillard]# ll /boot
total 6375
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78266 2007-12-18 19:03 config-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 2008-02-12 12:09 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 3587000 2008-01-09 09:41 initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
drwx------ 2 root root   12288 2006-03-21 04:19 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  845183 2007-12-18 19:03 System.map-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1970816 2007-12-18 19:03 vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
[root@pc-wip awillard]# rpm -ivh ./kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7.i586.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel                 ########################################### [100%]
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 151: 22710 Done                    echo nash-find "$@"
     22711 Segmentation fault      | /sbin/nash --force --quiet
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 90: 22721 Segmentation fault      $grubby --add-kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version $INITRD --copy-default $makedefault --title "$title" ${mbkernel:+--add-multiboot="$mbkernel"} ${mbargs:+--mbargs="$mbargs"} --args="root=$rootdevice $kernargs" --remove-kernel="TITLE=$title"
[root@pc-wip awillard]# ll /boot
total 9224
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78266 2007-12-18 19:03 config-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   78546 2008-02-10 15:40 config-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 2008-02-12 12:09 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 3587000 2008-01-09 09:41 initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
-rw------- 1 root root      50 2008-02-12 12:13 initrd-2.6.23.15-80.fc7.img
drwx------ 2 root root   12288 2006-03-21 04:19 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  845183 2007-12-18 19:03 System.map-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  846569 2008-02-10 15:40 System.map-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1970816 2007-12-18 19:03 vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1975136 2008-02-10 15:40 vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
[root@pc-wip awillard]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 174: 22733 Segmentation fault      $grubby --remove-kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version
[root@pc-wip awillard]#

As you can see, it fails and the created ramdisk image is only 50 bytes. So it failed when making it.

Specifically, the line in mkinitrd that fails is:

Code:

# next line seems to fail, any hints?
(cd $MNTIMAGE; findall . | cpio -H newc --quiet -o) >| $IMAGE || exit 1

I have plenty of disk space, 26 GB on root, 82MB on /boot.

My packages for mkinitrd and nash are:
[code]
$ rpm -q mkinitrd nash
mkinitrd-6.0.9-7.1
nash-6.0.9-7.1
[code]

I'm in a bit over my head here. If it matters, it's Fedora 7 and it's been working fine up to this incident.

awillard69 · 02-13-2008, 01:58 PM

More info:

I ran

Code:

# rpm -vV mkinitrd
prelink: /sbin/grubby: at least one of file's dependencies has changed since prelinking
S.?.....   /sbin/grubby
........ c /sbin/installkernel
........   /sbin/mkinitrd
........   /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
........ d /usr/share/man/man8/grubby.8.gz
........ d /usr/share/man/man8/mkinitrd.8.gz

So, I downloaded and reinstalled mkinitrd and nash (even though it didn't report any differences). But, nothing is different. I even restarted to see if maybe something may have been loaded in memory.

So, I looked into the grubby command. I did

Code:

 grubby --default-kernel
Segmentation fault

"Something is afoot, Watson!"

However, on a different machine,

Code:

# grubby --default-kernel
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7

So, it should work, but something with grubby (mkinitrd,nash) is not working.