initrd failure with kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC5.i686

[Kam Leo]

On 5/2/06, Nick Urbanik <nicku at nicku.org> wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>
> On 26/04/06 08:37 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> >Dear Folks,
> >
> >On 18/04/06 02:42 +0200, yordy wrote:
> >>Hi
> >>
> >>Recently, I have update my FC4 and
> >>kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4.i686 was installed, but I
> >>can't boot my FC4 now, when it start, after loading
> >>hardware network audio mi PC don't do anything else.
> >>
> >>Any idea of what is happend? The new kernel uninstall
> >>all other kernels existing before.
> >
> >On two of my machines, the initrd does not get made; one fails with:
> >No dep file found for kernel 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> >
> >even when I run
> >
> >$ sudo mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd.img-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 \
> >2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> >
> >while on the other machine, rpm stays for a very long time without
> >producing an initrd file:
> >$ sudo rpm -ihv kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.i686.rpm
> >Preparing...                ###########################################
> >[100%]
> >   1:kernel-smp             ###########################################
> >   [100%]
> >
> >No prompt appears again until I interrupt.
> >
> >I don't understand why that is, and it is a problem for me.
> >
> >I imagine that something similar is happening to you, yordy.
> >
> >Any suggestions, anyone?
>
> Rather odd that I am the only one with this problem.  Here is what
> happens when I try to install the package (this is changed behaviour;
> before the rpm program needed to be interrupted before it terminated):
>
> $ sudo rpm -ihv --replacefiles --replacepkgs
> /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages/kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.i686.rpm
> Preparing...       ########################################### [100%]
>    1:kernel-smp    ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /lib/modules/2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock.ko;4457b87b:
> cpio: read
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions.
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OK, what have you left out?  You say you updated your FC4 system, yet
I see that you are installing an FC5 kernel. Something does not add
up.  Are you running FC4 or FC5 on this box?