Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: The yum update didn't update grub, but it did update the kernel. This is the first time you have done a kernel update via yum with the new grub2. grubby updates the grub.cfg file. It seems reasonable to consider this a grubby bug, yes?

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It seems reasonable to consider this a grubby bug, yes? Considering grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg produces the exact correct result, guess I'm not understanding the purpose of grubby. Are we in transition? Chris Murphy -- devel

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 00:12 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It seems reasonable to consider this a grubby bug, yes? Considering grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg produces the exact correct result, guess I'm not understanding the purpose

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Michal Schmidt
Dne 21.3.2012 03:56, Adam Williamson napsal: Properly, it ought to be versioned grub2-2.00-0.1.beta2.fc17. (Or possibly grub2-2.00-0.1.~beta2.fc17, I really dunno what that tilde is for). The tilde is a debianism to mark a pre-release. dpkg understands version 42~foo as lower than 42. Michal

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Matthias Runge
The yum update didn't update grub, but it did update the kernel. This is the first time you have done a kernel update via yum with the new grub2. grubby updates the grub.cfg file. seems reproducible. My grub config is pretty empty, too. During update, I get something an error: grubby fatal

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Mike Chambers
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 20:30 -0700, John Reiser wrote: On 03/20/2012 06:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: After a yum update a few minutes ago, GRUB's kinda messed up. Anyone else? Yes, it happened to me, too, after booting an up-to-the-minute anaconda install DVD for _update_ (not fresh

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Peter Jones
On 03/21/2012 02:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 00:12 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It seems reasonable to consider this a grubby bug, yes? Considering grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg produces the exact correct

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:20 +0100, Michal Schmidt wrote: Dne 21.3.2012 03:56, Adam Williamson napsal: Properly, it ought to be versioned grub2-2.00-0.1.beta2.fc17. (Or possibly grub2-2.00-0.1.~beta2.fc17, I really dunno what that tilde is for). The tilde is a debianism to mark a

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 11:17 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: On 03/21/2012 02:27 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 00:12 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It seems reasonable to consider this a grubby bug, yes? Considering

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Peter Jones wrote: We definitely want to keep using grubby instead of running grub2-mkconfig and clobbering whatever's in your config file every time. *shrug* I think grubby makes for an increasingly cluttered grub.cfg. With the latest behavior I'm seeing with

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Peter Jones wrote: We definitely want to keep using grubby instead of running grub2-mkconfig and clobbering whatever's in your config file every time. *shrug* I think grubby makes for an increasingly

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Peter Jones wrote: We definitely want to keep using grubby instead of running grub2-mkconfig and clobbering whatever's in your

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: yeah, I have to admit I get the feeling we're kind of swimming against the tide, now. I'm not sure it would be so terrible to just decide to go with the upstream design, run grub2-mkconfig any time grub2.cfg needs updating, and tell people

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 09:01 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: Has somebody filed a bz about this issue? I haven't seen one referenced in the thread. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805310 I haven't yet managed to reproduce, though. I'm running grub2 '1.99-19', I installed a

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 15:14 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 12:02 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:17 AM, Peter Jones wrote: We definitely want to keep using grubby instead of

F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
After a yum update a few minutes ago, GRUB's kinda messed up. Anyone else? Right off the bat I get these two (2nd is a continuation of the 1st): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3253801/first.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3253801/second.png Which apparently fails, because I then get this:

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
OK so I figured I'd give grub2-mkconfig a shot: [root@f17v chris]# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.0-1.fc17.x86_64 Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.3.0-1.fc17.x86_64.img Found linux image:

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 19:24 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: After a yum update a few minutes ago, GRUB's kinda messed up. Anyone else? Right off the bat I get these two (2nd is a continuation of the 1st): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3253801/first.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3253801/second.png

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread John Reiser
On 03/20/2012 06:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: After a yum update a few minutes ago, GRUB's kinda messed up. Anyone else? Yes, it happened to me, too, after booting an up-to-the-minute anaconda install DVD for _update_ (not fresh install). I built the DVD to test the changes that are claimed to

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm guessing it's the new grub2. I think I've seen another report of problems installing new kernels after the grub2 update, but I don't see any bug filed. Can someone file a bug on this, please? When I boot from

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Only other thing I can think of is that there was something wonky that got stuffed into grub.env /boot/grub2/grubenv has a modification time of 24 hours ago. So I don't think that's it. Maybe there's something important stuffed into the

Re: F17 latest yum update hoses grub.cfg, grubby?

2012-03-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 23:43 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'm guessing it's the new grub2. I think I've seen another report of problems installing new kernels after the grub2 update, but I don't see any bug filed. Can someone file a bug on