grubby error "unable to find a suitable template" when installing 2.6.24.3-12.fc8
Nifty Hat Mitch
mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Mar 9 00:26:20 UTC 2008
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
With a yum update:
Installing the latest kernel:
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
kernel i686 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 updates 17 M
kernel-devel i686 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 updates 5.0 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 2 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 22 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing: kernel-devel ######################### [1/2]
Installing: kernel ######################### [2/2]
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.24.3-12.fc8 kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.24.3-12.fc8
Complete!
I removed these RPMs and then attempted to get more debuggng info
by installing them with rpm.
# rpm -ivh -vvv kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8*rpm kernel-devel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8*rpm 2>&1 | tee /tmp/what-does-kupdatedo
=== snip ====
D: adding "fd318145e16128a02902037a57d13445b7ced070" to Sha1header index.
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Filemd5s create mode=0x42
D: adding 2022 entries to Filemd5s index.
D: install: %post(kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686) synchronous scriptlet start
D: install: %post(kernel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.i686) execv(/bin/sh) pid 19344
++ uname -i
++ uname -i
+ '[' i386 == x86_64 -o i386 == i386 ']'
+ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ']'
+ /bin/sed -i -e 's/^DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-smp$/DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel/' /etc/sysconfig/kernel
+ /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.24.3-12.fc8
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
D: install: waitpid(19344) rc 19344 status 0 secs 13.091
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42
D: ========== +++ kernel-devel-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 i686-linux 0x0
=== snip ====
# rpm -qf /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8
====
my boot loader is grub.
====
After adding -x to new-kernel-pkg I see:
# /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.24.3-12.fc8
=== snip ====
++ sed 's/ release.*$//'
+ title='Fedora (2.6.24.3-12.fc8)'
+ /sbin/grubby --add-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.3-12.fc8 --initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.img --copy-default --make-default --title 'Fedora (2.6.24.3-12.fc8)' '--args=root=LABEL=/ ' '--remove-kernel=TITLE=Fedora (2.6.24.3-12.fc8)'
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
+ '[' -n '' ']'
=== snip ====
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