Bug 1499

Summary:	On upgrade from 2010.2, mkinitrd fails because of missing /tmp directory
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Reinout van Schouwen <reinout>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, pterjan
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mkinitrd	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Reinout van Schouwen 2011-05-31 00:03:47 CEST

Description of problem:

I performed a live upgrade from mdv 2010.2 according to the instructions on http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=qa_upgrade 

Upon upgrading the package 'suspend' the following error was logged (copied from urpmi.log):

1925/2014: suspend               #################################################################
mktemp: kan geen map aanmaken via sjabloon Ã¢<U+0080><U+0098>/tmp/initrd.XXXXXXÃ¢<U+0080><U+0099>: Bestand of map bestaat nietremoving upgraded package dia-0.97.1-1mdv2010.1.x86_6
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mktemp: kan geen bestand aanmaken via sjabloon Ã¢<U+0080><U+0098>/tmp/initrd.img.XXXXXXÃ¢<U+0080><U+0099>: Bestand of map bestaat niet
Error creating temporaries.  Try again
mkinitrd failed:
(mkinitrd -f /boot/initrd-2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga.img 2.6.38.7-desktop-1.mga) at /usr/lib/libDrakX/bootloader.pm line 124.

The reason proved to be that /tmp had disappeared. After finishing the upgrade process, the initrd symlink in /boot was broken. After manually creating /tmp and running mkinitrd again, a proper initrd was created.

Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2011-05-31 00:05:23 CEST

Translation of Dutch error messages:
kan geen map aanmaken via sjabloon => cannot create directory using template
Bestand of map bestaat niet => File or directory not found

Ahmad Samir 2011-05-31 01:29:33 CEST

CC: (none) => pterjan
Component: Release (media, process) => RPM Packages
Source RPM: suspend => mkinitrd

Comment 2 Pascal Terjan 2011-05-31 10:38:33 CEST

Hmm if something removed /tmp the bug is in what removed it
We can create it in mkinitrd but many other apps would be annoyed too...

Comment 3 Reinout van Schouwen 2011-05-31 11:05:26 CEST

The error message above was the only suspicious thing I noticed, but if you need more debug info I'll be happy to provide it. Some kind of sanity check would probably be nice after the upgrade process, if I hadn't noticed this my system would not have booted up again (at least not with the Mageia kernel).

Comment 4 Pascal Terjan 2011-05-31 11:17:42 CEST

Yes mkinitrd is important so it would be nice to make it more robust, but after reboot I would expect some services to not start without /tmp, probably including X so it's important to find why it has happened

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-16 19:27:51 CEST

Was this bug ever reproduced, and if so, was it reproduced with Mageia 1 official release, too?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 6 Reinout van Schouwen 2011-10-16 20:59:48 CEST

I haven't reproduced it on a different system.

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-16 21:12:41 CEST

(In reply to comment #6)
> I haven't reproduced it on a different system.

Well, if you reproduced it on the same system: that is interesting, too.
Did you reÃ¯nstall MDV 2010.2 first? Did you upgrade to Mageia 1 official?

Comment 8 Reinout van Schouwen 2011-10-16 21:51:42 CEST

No, I didn't do a re-upgrade from 2010.2 to Mageia 1 on the same machine.

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-17 06:54:33 CEST

@ Reinout

Thanks for replying :)

Closing as old, because there are no reports about this being an issue in Mageia 1 or current cauldron

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD