Janis Klava
writes: On Saturday 25 December 2004 17:12, Detlef Grittner wrote:
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
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.
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Just went into the same trap and had to revive my system by calling mkinitrd from the rescue system. But the question is: Why is the UserMode Linux package installed on my system?
I guess you selected at one time "kernel-development" as option to install.
It is part of the kernel update ... if you look closely when doing a YOU, you will see that it is documented in the description of included packages.
That's not right - the patch mentions kernel-default,kernel-smp, kernel-um, ltmodem etc - and only those that are installed will get updated. So, if you do not have kernel-um installed, it will not get updated. Otherwise everybody on the list should have kernel-um installed;-) I've been doing YOUs to a completely stock system and as you say, it is there in the included files but at no time have I ever done anything special. I
On Saturday 25 December 2004 18:38, Andreas Jaeger wrote: probably have um but I believe that was one of the features of 9.2. This bug would seem to just that, a bug in the latest update. Janis
Andreas