From http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security/2004-Dec/0118.html: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126