Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (15 mails)

[Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:52, Adrian Wells wrote:
> Thanks Paul, has anyone else seen this?

SuSE were pretty quick off the mark to warn people about this. This message 
appeared on suse-security-announce less than twenty minutes after the 
original posting about the availability of the updated kernel:

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The following only affects SUSE Linux 9.2.

We received additional reports of breakage if you have additionaly the 
UserMode Linux
Kernel package "kernel-um" installed.

In this case the system initrd will be created from "kernel-um" and not from
"kernel-default" or "kernel-smp" 

As workaround: 

- If you do not need the kernel-um package, deinstall it using:
        rpm -e kernel-um

   and recreate the system initird by running:
        mkinitrd

   before rebooting.

- if you need the kernel-um package, restore the symlink using:

        ln -sf /boot/initrd-2.6.8-24.10-default /boot/initrd

    (replace -default by the kerneltyp you use, detectable by:
        rpm -qa|grep kernel-

     which will be either "default", "smp" or "bigsmp".)

  after installing the updated packages and before booting the new kernel.

Ciao, Marcus
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Phil Driscoll