Bug 489104

Summary: kernel rpms output errors during installation with zypper
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Dave Plater <davejplater>
Component: KernelAssignee: Michal Marek <mmarek>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: davejplater, dimstar, jeffm
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86-64   
OS: Other   
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Attachments: errors output by rpms on installation
zypper.log

Description Dave Plater 2009-03-26 10:44:41 UTC
Created attachment 282185 [details]
errors output by rpms on installation

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-2.6 Firefox/3.0.6

When I updated to the latest factory kernel the kernel-default and 
kernel-default-base-2.6.29-5.2.x86_64 rpms output a string of errors during installation

Reproducible: Always

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I haven't rebooted with the new kernel yet but the error output leads me to think that it won't work.
Comment 1 Dave Plater 2009-03-26 10:48:55 UTC
Created attachment 282188 [details]
zypper.log
Comment 2 Dominique Leuenberger 2009-03-26 14:36:58 UTC
Dave,

I think the issue comes from the split in three packages (-default, -default-base and -defualt-extra).

At mine it looked like all three tried to run mkinitrd, but of course only the last one of the set has a complete set and can really succeed.

So in short: I had the same 'warnings' and rebooted without any issues.

I'm not sure if it's something really new or if it's just because zypper now shows those warnins. Pretty sure they were there before, but unremarked. (yes: they DO look scary)
Comment 3 Jeff Mahoney 2009-03-26 14:46:51 UTC
It's annoying, but it's expected.
Comment 4 Dave Plater 2009-03-26 17:06:13 UTC
Thanks for the encouragement I rebooted with no problems. Some of the rpm output seems to resemble bug 431703
Comment 5 Dave Plater 2009-04-04 07:34:41 UTC
I installed latest factory kernel with yast and had no strange outputs on screen or in y2log but I'm presently uninstalling old kernels with zypper and the terminal is being spamed with a multitude of similar messages.
From this I am concluding that this bug is actually a zypper specific bug
Comment 6 Michal Marek 2009-07-09 09:04:45 UTC
Without giving any more details I don't know where to dupe you ;-). There are currently two problems:

1) kernel-*-base opportunistically runs mkinitrd, which fails in most scenarios: bug 491959. Hard to fix.

2) The factory kernel has some modules like ext3 built-in, but mkinitrd / modprobe has no way to find out (mkinitrd checks the running kernel's /sys/module/*, so it kind of works if you already run a similar or same kernel): bug 430405. This is will be fixed soon.
Comment 7 Dave Plater 2009-07-09 09:39:44 UTC
It's a pity that it's not possible to have a separate script module to run after the kernel packages have installed
Comment 8 Michal Marek 2009-07-16 16:32:11 UTC
I think this is a duplicate of bug 491959 (but please be more specific next time, "string of errors" doesn't tell much).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491959 ***