Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security-announce (10 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:28:58AM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:21:07PM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Like some of you noted the 9.2 kernels RPMs are not there anymore, even
> > though they are listed in the advisory.
> > 
> > This is due us receiving reports where the Yast Online Update updating
> > this kernel made the machine fail to boot.
> > 
> > The reason is that a script is no longer creating the vmlinuz and initrd
> > symlinks as is required for successful booting.
> > 
> > We are preparing updated fixed packages for this problem and will be releasing
> > them hopefully within the next day(s).
> 
> We have released fixed 9.2 kernel packages, available either from Yast Online Update
> or via the URLs below.

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