Kernel Bug Triage - Join Us

[David Mack]

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> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Dave Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 8:24 AM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Cc: pjones at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Kernel Bug Triage - Join Us
> 
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:21:50AM -0700, David Mack wrote:
>  > Rerunning mkinitrd (6.0.17-1.fc8) made no difference. 
> Neither (per Dave
>  > Jones suggestion) did erasing the .195 kernel and 
> reinstalling it. Still
>  > dies when nash can't find libm.so.6. The previous kernel
>  > (2.6.23-0.193.rc7.git1.rc8) did the same thing.
>  > 
>  > The 2.6.21 fc8xen kernels boot successfully.
> 
> Something is utterly busted with your mkinitrd.
> Peter, why would it not include glibc?

After unpacking the initrd image, I found that there is a libm.so.6 in
the image but it's in /lib/i686/nosegneg. It's actually a symlink to
libm-2.6.90.so in the same directory. 

> 
> David, can you put a broken initrd img somewhere for me to download?
> (Or mail it to me privately off-list)

I'll have to see if I can mail out anything with that large an
attachment.

Dave
> 	Dave
> 
> 
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>  > [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michal
>  > Jaegermann
>  > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 12:33 PM
>  > To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
>  > Subject: Re: Kernel Bug Triage - Join Us
>  > 
>  > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:03:02PM -0700, David Mack wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > Boot then proceeds until 
>  > > 
>  > > /bin/nash: error while loading shared libraries: 
> libm.so.6: cannot
>  > open
>  > > shared object file: No such file or directory
>  > > 
>  > > And then it kernel panics while trying to kill init.
>  > 
>  > So this is really not a kernel problem but a trouble with
>  > 'mkinitrd' package.  Some three weeks ago there was mkinitrd
>  > which was thoroughly broken but, AFAIK, it was fixed a long time
>  > ago.  Are you uptodate on that one?  The current one is
>  > mkinitrd-6.0.17-1.fc8
>  > 
>  >    Michal
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