rawhide report: 20060907 changes: kernel won't install

[Paul Dickson]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 06:00:28 -0400, buildsys at redhat.com wrote:

> kernel-2.6.17-1.2630.fc6
> ------------------------
> * Wed Sep 06 2006 Juan Quintela <quintela at redhat.com>
> - Undo rhel5 xen patch for relocatable.
> 
> * Wed Sep 06 2006 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - AGP support for Intel I965
> 
> * Tue Sep 05 2006 Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
> - Update xenfb based on upstream review

[...]

> mkinitrd-5.1.11-1
> -----------------
> * Wed Sep 06 2006 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 5.1.11-1
> - Pull in bdevid properly (not two sources any more)
> - Lots of minor bugfixes, leak fixups, etc.
> - Updates for new iScsi userland (katzj)
> - ata and usb device id probes in bdevid
> - preliminary work for boot-time device identification.
> - Fixes for network driver selection (katzj)

This won't install on one of my systems, an Athlon 1333 Mhz:

  Installing: kernel                       ####################### [11/32] 
*** glibc detected *** /sbin/nash: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08283210 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
[0x8186bf7]
[0x8189b7d]
[0x8063a69]
[0x805cd82]
[0x805d93b]
[0x805ab8a]
[0x805ace0]
[0x805ae34]
[0x804bfd6]
[0x804f0b2]
[0x804f597]
[0x815d3c7]
[0x8048131]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08263000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 803613     /sbin/nash
08263000-0826c000 rwxp 0021b000 03:02 803613     /sbin/nash
0826c000-08287000 rwxp 0826c000 00:00 0 
093d7000-09487000 rwxp 093d7000 00:00 0 
b7e00000-b7e25000 rwxp b7e00000 00:00 0 
b7e25000-b7f00000 --xp b7e25000 00:00 0 
b7fb0000-b7fb1000 r-xp b7fb0000 00:00 0          [vdso]
bfeec000-bff02000 rw-p bfeec000 00:00 0          [stack]
*** glibc detected *** /sbin/grubby: free(): invalid pointer: 0x00cf9150 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xc24ecd]
/lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xc285a0]
/sbin/grubby[0x80a9ea9]
/sbin/grubby[0x8057002]
/sbin/grubby[0x8057bbb]
/sbin/grubby[0x8054e0a]
/sbin/grubby[0x8054f60]
/sbin/grubby[0x80550b4]
/sbin/grubby[0x804f6dc]
/sbin/grubby[0x804f922]
/sbin/grubby[0x805086a]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xbd4f2c]
/sbin/grubby[0x804ae21]
======= Memory map: ========
00977000-00990000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 131521     /lib/ld-2.4.90.so
00990000-00991000 r-xp 00018000 03:02 131521     /lib/ld-2.4.90.so
00991000-00992000 rwxp 00019000 03:02 131521     /lib/ld-2.4.90.so
00bbf000-00cf6000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 132152     /lib/libc-2.4.90.so
00cf6000-00cf8000 r-xp 00137000 03:02 132152     /lib/libc-2.4.90.so
00cf8000-00cf9000 rwxp 00139000 03:02 132152     /lib/libc-2.4.90.so
00cf9000-00cfc000 rwxp 00cf9000 00:00 0 
00d59000-00d64000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 136388     /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.1-20060828.so.1
00d64000-00d65000 rwxp 0000a000 03:02 136388     /lib/libgcc_s-4.1.1-20060828.so.1
08048000-080ed000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 805101     /sbin/grubby
080ed000-080f1000 rwxp 000a5000 03:02 805101     /sbin/grubby
080f1000-080fb000 rwxp 080f1000 00:00 0 
09b2d000-09bd9000 rwxp 09b2d000 00:00 0 
b7e00000-b7e21000 rwxp b7e00000 00:00 0 
b7e21000-b7f00000 --xp b7e21000 00:00 0 
b7fac000-b7fae000 rwxp b7fac000 00:00 0 
b7fce000-b7fcf000 r-xp b7fce000 00:00 0          [vdso]
bfb31000-bfb47000 rw-p bfb31000 00:00 0          [stack]
/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 90:  9805 Aborted                 $grubby --add-kernel=$bootPrefix/$kernelName-$version $INITRD --copy-default $makedefault --title "$title" ${mbkernel:+--add-multiboot="$mbkernel"} ${mbargs:+--mbargs="$mbargs"} --args="root=$rootdevice $kernargs" --remove-kernel="TITLE=$title"
  Updating  : policycoreutils              ####################### [12/32] 

BTW - Why is my yum packages directory suddenly empty?

	-Paul