Bug 5774

Summary:	Upgrade with 'One big transaction' failed creating bootloader - mga1 to Pre RC DVD 64
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	claire robinson <eeeemail>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, ennael1, mageia
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dracut or mkinitrd	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	3342
Attachments:	report.bug.tar.xz drakx.tar.xz - logs from /mnt/root/drakx lsmntboot.txt - output from ls /mnt/boot/

Description claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:09:43 CEST

I don't know if this has anything to do with 'one big transaction' but after completing the package installation process it failed while creating bootloader.

An error occured
mkinitrd failed:
(mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-3.3.4-desktop-1.mga2.img 3.3.4-desktop-1.mga2).

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4147101/DSC01041.JPG

It looks like an error in finding modules..

Output from # ps on tty2 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4147101/DSC01040.JPG

claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:10:54 CEST

CC: (none) => ennael1

Comment 1 claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:32:16 CEST

Created attachment 2197 [details]
report.bug.tar.xz

Comment 2 claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:33:10 CEST

Created attachment 2198 [details]
drakx.tar.xz - logs from /mnt/root/drakx

Comment 3 claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:33:58 CEST

Created attachment 2199 [details]
lsmntboot.txt - output from ls /mnt/boot/

Comment 4 claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:40:21 CEST

I tried the command it used manually and it succeeded..

chroot /mnt
mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-3.3.4-desktop-1.mga2.img 3.3.4-desktop-1.mga2

Comment 5 claire robinson 2012-05-06 18:48:05 CEST

I clicked Ok to the error message in the installer and it tried again to create the bootloader. Maybe because i had created it manually, it passed that part and completed the installation.

After reboot it booted without problem using the new kernel.

$ uname -r
3.3.4-desktop-1.mga2

Comment 6 Dave Hodgins 2012-05-06 20:23:34 CEST

The mkinitrd failure looks to me like it might be bug 44.

To work around it, try shutting down anything likely to use a
lot of cpu on the host, and when booting the installer, add
the kernel option divider=10.

The report.bug also shows duplication of bug 5592.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 7 Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-07 19:20:42 CEST

colin, an idea maybe ?

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 8 Colin Guthrie 2012-05-07 20:00:24 CEST

@Manuel: The egrep MODULE bit is expected. It's part of the normal sequence of events. In the ddebug.log1 file it appears to be running the real mkinitrd rather than dracut, but I'm not 100% sure what's going on there.

Maybe it just took longer than the installer expects and it timed out? Not sure if it even does that tho'...

Manuel Hiebel 2012-05-08 21:26:13 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 3342

Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2012-05-26 13:08:25 CEST

Hi,

This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment.

Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2.

Thanks :)

Cheers,
marja

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 10 claire robinson 2012-07-06 17:33:20 CEST

This didn't happen again so we should probably close it.

Please reopen if you can reproduce.

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