Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> 2009/2/4 Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>:
 
> > > 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@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)

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Eberhard Mönkeberg
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