Howdy,
I found my first Mandrake bugs, since installing 6.1 (helios). I downloaded
all the latest rpms from the update directory from my local mirror. They are:
MandrakeUpdate-6.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
am-utils-6.0.1s11-1mdk.i586.rpm
bind-8.2.2P5-1mdk.i586.rpm
dump-0.4b9-1mdk.i586.rpm
e2fsprogs-1.18-1mdk.i586.rpm
e2fsprogs-devel-1.18-1mdk.i586.rpm
gimp-1.0.4-7mdk.i586.rpm
gnuplot-3.7.0.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
initscripts-4.23-35mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-doc-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-fb-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-ibcs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-smp-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm
kvirc-0.9.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
lpr-0.43-1mdk.i586.rpm
mount-2.9w-3mdk.i586.rpm
netscape-common-4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm
netscape-communicator-4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm
netscape-navigator-4.70-1mdk.i586.rpm
screen-3.9.4-3mdk.i586.rpm
vixie-cron-3.0.1-38mdk.i586.rpm
wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
xpdf-0.90-2mdk.i586.rpm
ypserv-1.3.9-1mdk.i586.rpm
The rest of my system is a stock Mandrake 6.1 with 'Everything' installed.
Since I built my own kernel which lives in /vmlinuz, I assumed that there
would be no problems updating the kernel, so I ran
rpm -Uhv *
Which segv'ed and dumped core. I soon found that if rpm was getting more
than one file to install simultaneously it would dump core. Anyway I soon
had them all installed with a quick:
for i in *; do rpm -Uhv $i; done
The second bug I found, is that either mkinitrd is broken, or the wrong
kernel was shipped in kernel-2.2.13-22mdk.i586.rpm. I couldn't really find
out, because of my booting complications. Anyway, I was keen to see the new
Mandrake 2.2.13-22 kernel. So I ran:
'mkinitrd /boot/my.img 2.2.13-22mdk' (sic - definitely not 2.2.13-22mdksmp,
which does exist as a kernel in /boot). This gave me my my.img, edited
lilo.conf, reran lilo, rebooted. The new kernel came up correctly and root
was successfully mounted etc (and it was 2.2.13-22), but the damn thing is an
SMP kernel. So either mkinitrd is using the wrong image from /boot, or the
wrong kernel was shipped in the distribution.
Third bug: I decided I still wanted to see this -22 kernel, and so I would
build it from the sources. I changed the symlink /usr/src/linux to point to
/usr/src/linux-2.2.13-22mdk. Ran 'make xconfig'. Was very impressed. The
default config had everything being built as a module and everything
configured. I changed my processor to a PPro, and turned SMP off. I left
everything else at default. Ran 'make bzImage'. gcc quickly dies with
multiply defined stuff.
Moved back to 2.2.9 kernel sources, and everything now works fine.
Cheers,
chippo
