Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Peter Poeml <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:45:12AM +0100, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
> 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.

rpm -e --justdb kernel-$version 
should achieve the same; it is what I used until I settled for yum.

On 11.x (with new enough libzypp, i.e. from 11.1 or newer), I use zypper
with the new "multiversion" feature. It is simple to configure and does
the job - Stano has blogged about it here:
http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/02/03/do-you-want-multiple-kernels-on-your-system/

Peter
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