'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 14/07/12 19:49 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 14/07/12 17:30 did gyre and gimble: >> Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> While debugging https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6692#c8 I >>> realised that the initrd is generated when the kernel is installed, but >>> it's not regenerated again later. >> >> Hi, >> >> /root/drakx/ddebug.log might give some clue about what failed. > > Not a huge deal in it that gives (me) clues: > > * starting step `setupBootloader' > * to put in /mnt/etc/modprobe.preload evdev > * modify_append: > * modify_append: resume=UUID=f06016be-3bda-495d-900e-72f5c7d13a41 > * running: /sbin/display_driver_helper --is-kms-allowed with root /mnt > * modify_append: nokmsboot resume=UUID=f06016be-3bda-495d-900e-72f5c7d13a41 > * bootloader::suggest_onmbr: type empty, onmbr 1, unsafe 0 > * adding /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 > * current labels: linux > * adding /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 > * current labels: linux linux-nonfb > * adding /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 > * current labels: linux linux-nonfb failsafe > * looking for configured grub on partitions > * setupBootloaderBefore end > * step `setupBootloader' finished > ... > * fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sda>> > * running: keytab-lilo.pl us with root /mnt > * program not found: keytab-lilo.pl > * writing grub config to /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst > * Installing boot loader... > * running: sh /boot/grub/install.sh with root /mnt > > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename. ] > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 17 sectors are embedded. > succeeded > Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 (hd0) > (hd0)1+17 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst"... succeeded > Done. > grub> quit > * step `summary' finished > > > >> >>> I'm not sure why this isn't working but perhaps someone more familiar >>> with the installer itself (TV?) could comment? >>> >>> I was under the impression the initrd would be regenerated at the end? >>> Does this even happen or have I just assumed this? I'm pretty sure in >>> the past it did used to regenerate it but I could be mistaken. >>> >>> So the question then remains, how do we ensure that either: >>> a) the initrd is regenerated at the end of the install process >> >> That's ensured at the bootloader installation step. >> If not present for every configured kernel, an initrd will be created. > > What if the initrd is present? e.g. it was created when the kernel was > installed. Would it still be REgenerated at this stage? (I always > presumed it would be or that it was not generated at the install time). > > Looking at the script /sbin/installkernel I see: > > [ -z "$DURING_INSTALL" ] || exit 0 > > So it shouldn't do anything when run as part of the kernel post > install... So perhaps some other package triggers an initrd generation? > > Looking at things happening live... I see that the symlink > initrd-desktop.img is created, but it points nowhere. I wonder could one > of the bootsplash scripts do something like resolve the symlink name and > then recreate the initrd automatically because the file does not exist?
The initrd was generated at 12:49:00 So it was after these packages were installed that it happened.... Sat Jul 14 12:47:48 2012:lib64kms1 Sat Jul 14 12:47:48 2012:mageia-theme-common Sat Jul 14 12:47:58 2012:bootsplash Sat Jul 14 12:47:58 2012:bridge-utils Sat Jul 14 12:47:58 2012:dash Sat Jul 14 12:47:58 2012:plymouth-plugin-script Sat Jul 14 12:47:59 2012:plymouth Sat Jul 14 12:47:59 2012:plymouth-scripts Sat Jul 14 12:47:59 2012:plymouth-system-theme Sat Jul 14 12:48:00 2012:dracut Sat Jul 14 12:48:00 2012:mageia-theme-Default Sat Jul 14 12:48:07 2012:kernel-desktop-3.3.6-2.mga2 One of them must be the guilty party!! Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
