Rawhide: similar systems reports different operating system

[Antonio M]

2009/1/29 Michael Schwendt <mschwendt.tmp0701.nospam at arcor.de>:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:14:03 +0100, Antonio wrote:
>
>> $ su
>> Password:
>> [root at Casa antonio]# find /etc -name system-release | xargs -t cat
>> cat /etc/system-release
>> Fedora release 10.91 (Rawhide)
>
> Still raises the question from where webmin loads the release?


>
>> [root at Casa antonio]#  rpm -qa plymouth\*
>> plymouth-plugin-solar-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-scripts-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-utils-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-plugin-label-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-gdm-hooks-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-plugin-spinfinity-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>> plymouth-libs-0.6.0-2.fc11.i386
>
> How old is your kernel initrd?
> Can you extract the files stored within it?
> It contains copies of /etc/fedora-release and /etc/system-release.
>
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I am running 2.6.28-3.fc11.i686 that is quite old for rawhide, but no
29 series kernel completes booting on this particular system (see  Bug
479525 -  Kernel doesn't complete booting reported on January 10 and
related comments).
The other system reporting 10.91 is running on latest kernel.

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Antonio Montagnani
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