automagic rpm changes in grub.conf

[Christoph Höger]

Mikkel L. Ellertson schrieb:
> Christoph Höger wrote:
>> John Summerfield schrieb:
>>> Christoph Höger wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I subscribed to this mailinglist yesterday (found nothing in the latest
>>>> archives and google) so all I got so far was your advice and mikkel
>>>> asking for my grub.conf. I would appreciate if you have any other hints
>>>> left.
>>> I thought you said you found the problem. Now I'm confused.
>> Well, I hope, I found it. I have to wait for a new kernel to test ;).
>> If it was the kernel-xen line it's worth a bug report.
>> If not, I have an other problem.
> What you will find is that once you say you think you have found the
> problem, or someone else on the list give what is probably the
> answer, that you will not get many more response until you post the
> results of your test. A big part of this is that we don't want to
> overload you with different things to try, as well as avoiding
> giving the same advice 20 times.
> 
> There are a couple of other factors involved. It may be some time
> between your posting, and your message getting read. This is
> especially true on weekends and in cases like this, were there has
> just been a new version released. The people on this list are not
> payed to be here, and for the most part, are here in their spare
> time. In this case, between the time I asked for your grub.conf, and
> the time I read your post, John had given you a good answer to your
> problem, so there was not need to respond. This is fairly normal on
> the list. A lot of troubleshooting ends up being a team effort.
> Sometimes the questions asked when trying to solve a problem lead to
> the discovery that the problem was not what the original poster (OP)
> thought it was.
> 
> Sometimes answers posted to a problem are widely off the mark - you
> have to learn who is worth listening to. You will sometimes get
> sarcastic answers to your questions. Personally, I think answers
> that teach you how to find the answers to your problem, or teach you
> something, instead of just giving you the answer are the best answers.
> 
> Another thing to watch out for is that because Fedora is not
> targeted at new Linux users, there is a certain level of
> competence/knowledge that is assumed. So if you get an answer that
> you do not understand, or contains terms or commands you do not
> understand, be sure you ask about them. Do not assume because you
> understand part of the answer, that terms you do not understand are
> not important.
> 
> I normally would not be so long-winded, but your post indicated to
> me that you do not understand how this list works. If I am wrong, I
> apologize for going over things you already know. In that case, I
> can only hope that this helps others that are new to the list.
> 
> Mikkel
> 

Hi Mikkel,

well I think I can call myself an experienced linux user ;).
I was simply stuck on how rpm handles grub.conf.
All I wanted to say with: "I subscribed yesterday" was that I had not 
heard anything about such things yet, after John mentioned "what others 
said" (needless to say I'm trying not to spam this list with obvious 
stuff and would have tried all possible solutions if I had found anything).

Nevertheless thank you for your indeed long comment and back to topic:
Right now yum seems still to be screwed up, so I have to wait to test 
the new kernel until tomorrow.
But if really the kernel-xen line is the origin, I will blame the 
kernel-packager for not removing it, when the last xen kernel has been ;).


regards

christoph