Hi, On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/2/4 Eberhard Moenkeberg
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So providing the kernel that worked is required. Updating zypper alone is not a solution! Presumably someone who runs 11.0 actually backs up their system?
That would not help. A "native" OpenSUSE/SLES/SLED system just has one kernel to boot. And if it does't, you won't reach your backups with ease.
Well I actually had the problem, due to update being screwed up, and I sorted it fairly simply, with a Live CD, the rpm(8) man page, chroot & mkinitrd, and fetching known good kernel rpm's. Fetching the files from backup would have been even simpler.
Surely someone has the rpm's still? This issue has been the same in SuSE for ages and folk have muddled through, even though this was obviously severely compromising the enterprise worthiness of the distro.
I can live with it, but it is nasty, and against YaST's philosophy. If YOU is offering a kernel update, it brings a popup window. I then do cd /lib/modules mkdir x cp -al `uname -r` x/ cd /boot mkdir x cp -a *`uname -r`* x/ cd /usr/src cp -al linux-`uname -r`* x/ then ack the popup, and after YOU has finished, I copy the saves back to .. This way, my old, but running kernel is still valid - I can delay the reboot as long as I like and enter an additional, "safe" boot target into the grub or lilo setup. YaST is still wasting /etc/lilo.conf and /boot/grub/menue.lst regularly in this case, but that is a different point if you need something to argue against the "quality" which I will not reflect upon here. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org) -- Eberhard Mönkeberg Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur E-Mail: emoenke@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1551 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen URL: http://www.gwdg.de E-Mail: gwdg@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 Fax: +49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Neumair Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht: Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598 -------------------------------------------------------------------------