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Gerry Gavigan

24 Dec 2004 24 Dec '04

12:40

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: I've just posted the answer to linuxquestions.org Date: Friday 24 December 2004 12:25 From: Gerry Gavigan To: Kennie.Cruz@ece.uprm.edu You can repair your system using the install disk repair to downgrade the kernel. I was about to post here myself - I am so annoyed. Further details on website Gerry -------------------------------------------------------

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Anders Johansson

24 Dec 24 Dec

12:45

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On Friday 24 December 2004 13:40, Gerry Gavigan wrote:

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You can repair your system using the install disk repair to downgrade the kernel. I was about to post here myself - I am so annoyed. Further details on website

Bad answer, no need to downgrade to a kernel with security problems

Kennie Cruz

12:47

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Anders Johansson said the following on 12/24/2004 8:45 AM:

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Bad answer, no need to downgrade to a kernel with security problems

Just follow Anders Johansson instructions and presto! A working system back online. -- Kennie J. Cruz Gutierrez, UNIX System Administrator Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus Work Phone: (787) 832-4040 x 3798 Email: Kennie.Cruz@ece.uprm.edu Web: http://ece.uprm.edu/~kennie/

Martin Deppe

13:20

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Hi Guys (sorry, I didn't hit the list before), I just updated my 9.2 kernel at about 12 pm today and got the following result in /boot: martin4:/boot # ls -l total 5920 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Dec 24 12:01 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 728 Dec 24 12:36 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 756078 Dec 22 16:55 System.map-2.6.8-24.10-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 1 09:18 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 1 09:05 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56418 Dec 22 17:11 config-2.6.8-24.10-smp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 24 01:39 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 24 12:01 initrd -> initrd-2.6.8-24.10-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365709 Dec 24 12:01 initrd-2.6.8-24.10-smp drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 1 09:02 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95232 Dec 3 21:52 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78765 Dec 22 17:12 symvers-2.6.8-24.10-i386-smp.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1984150 Dec 22 17:11 vmlinux-2.6.8-24.10-smp.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 24 12:01 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.10-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1675211 Dec 22 16:55 vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.10-smp martin4:/boot # Am I still at risk to not be able to boot without having to execute mk_initrd or is it fixed in the meantime? The previous one is still running! :-) Regards Martin Kennie Cruz wrote:

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Anders Johansson said the following on 12/24/2004 8:45 AM:

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Bad answer, no need to downgrade to a kernel with security problems

Just follow Anders Johansson instructions and presto! A working system back online.

Anders Johansson

14:01

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On Friday 24 December 2004 14:20, Martin Deppe wrote:

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 24 12:01 initrd -> initrd-2.6.8-24.10-smp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365709 Dec 24 12:01 initrd-2.6.8-24.10-smp <snip> Am I still at risk to not be able to boot without having to execute mk_initrd or is it fixed in the meantime? The previous one is still running! :-)

No, that looks fine. Apparently the problem only arises if you have the kernel-um package installed, and you don't seem to have that one

William Gallafent

12:47

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On Friday 24 December 2004 12:40, Gerry Gavigan wrote:

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You can repair your system using the install disk repair to downgrade the kernel. I was about to post here myself - I am so annoyed. Further details on website

Better (because you end up with the latest kernel) (and I requote it because I hit the same problem this morning, and so will be many, many other people, I imagine ...): On Friday 24 December 2004 10:04, Anders Johansson wrote:

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From the rescue system

mkdir tmp mount /dev/hda2 tmp (or whatever your root partition is) chroot tmp mount /boot (if it's on a separate partition) mk_initrd

reboot, and you should be fine

I did this, and I am now fine :) Thanks for that very timely hint, Anders. Incidentally, the 9.2 "mini-installation iso", which is only a 64M (or so) iso, available from the SuSE ftp site, has a suitable rescue system available on it; it's this (since my DVD is at home, not at work) that I used to boot so I could apply the fix. This is the first YOU I've done for ages which has broken things at all, let alone this badly. In a rush to get it out of the door before Christmas, perhaps? -- Bill

mikus＠bga.com

14:12

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:40:29 +0000 Gerry Gavigan wrote:

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Subject: I've just posted the answer to linuxquestions.org Date: Friday 24 December 2004 12:25 From: Gerry Gavigan To: Kennie.Cruz@ece.uprm.edu

You can repair your system using the install disk repair to downgrade the kernel. I was about to post here myself - I am so annoyed. Further details on website

Gerry

My problem was that the YOU install package pointed symbolic link 'initrd' in /boot to file 'initrd-2.6.8-24.10-um'. Normally, that link would be pointed to 'initrd-2.6.8-24.10-default'. I manually corrected where that link points, and the new kernel booted as it should. mikus

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