[Bug 401125] New: zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

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18 Jun 2008 18 Jun '08

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 Summary: zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp AssignedTo: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: mrmazda@ij.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- My usual upgrade method is to use Smart, since other methods like zypper and yast are too difficult to get to leave kernels, and especially, working initrds, in place. However after converting one of my Factory installs over to the new 11.0 repositories today, Smart didn't seem capable of finding the new packages from 11.0 repos that weren't in the 11.0rc1 repos. So, I manually fetched rpm, perl-Bootloader, mkinitrd, kernel-pae-2.6.25.5-1.1, splashy, yast2-bootloader, zypper, libzypp & a few others and deps, then installed them using rpm. Next I rebooted to ensure that the new kernel and initrd actually worked, after which without first removing the prior kernel-pae-2.6.25.4-10 I tried to do zypper ref; zypper dup. Zypper then found a bizarre conflict and offer of resolutions: Problem: conflicting requests Solution 1: keep kernel-pae Solution 2: do not install kernel-pae-2.6.25.5-1.1.i586 When I chose 1, it looped until I chose 2 instead. When I chose 2, it told me: .. The following packages are going to be REMOVED: kernel-pae kernel-pae While zypper was doing the dup I examined /boot and saw complete absence of kernels, but when done I found via rpm query it had installed kernel-debug. I then checked /lib/modules and found directories for pae, default, debug and xen, even though there was no xen or default kernel or initrd in /boot. I inspected /boot/grub/menu.lst and found only one 11.0 entry with enough on the kernel line to enable a boot (failsafe for the pae kernel). None of the rest had root= or anything else on them. Zypper should leave all the kernels undisturbed when any kernel in the upgrade list matches any kernel already installed. Zypper should not present a choice when announcing a conflict that it won't or can't execute. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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18 Jun 18 Jun

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New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c1 --- Comment #1 from Felix Miata 2008-06-17 21:28:30 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=222629) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=222629) menu.lst prior to zypper dup -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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03:28

New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c2 --- Comment #2 from Felix Miata 2008-06-17 21:28:42 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=222630) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=222630) menu.lst immediately after zypper dup Relevant tail of /var/log/zypper.log is 14462K. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User schubi@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c3 Stefan Schubert changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |schubi@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mrmazda@ij.net --- Comment #3 from Stefan Schubert 2008-06-18 00:47:56 MDT --- Could you please add a testcase ? http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper#Solver_Test_Case -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mls@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c4 --- Comment #4 from Michael Schröder 2008-06-18 02:32:43 MDT --- not also that 1) 'zypper dup' is only useful for dist upgrades, it shouldn't be used to keep your system up-to-date 2) the leaving old kernels installed feature unfortunately didn't make it into GA, we hope to get it in soon with a libzypp update I think the bizarre conflict comes from the fact that you had two pae kernels installed and 'zypper dup' can't handle that (yet). So probably also a bug in the dup algorithm. The solver test case would help to fix this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c5 --- Comment #5 from Felix Miata 2008-06-18 05:52:29 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=222734) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=222734) content of /var/log/updateTestcase this had apparently already been created doing zypper dup yesterday -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c6 Felix Miata changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mrmazda@ij.net | --- Comment #6 from Felix Miata 2008-06-18 05:53:04 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=222735) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=222735) content of /var/log/zypper.solverTestcase In runlevel 3 I did as per the provided URL zypper install --debug-solver MozillaFirefox. MozillaFirefox was already installed. I have no clue why it's part of the instruction or how it has anything to do with debugging zypper. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User jkupec@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c7 Ján Kupec changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jkupec@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |mrmazda@ij.net --- Comment #7 from Ján Kupec 2008-06-18 06:15:29 MDT --- the MozillaFirefox is just an example. Just run the problematic command (dup in this case) with --debug-solver option added: $ zypper dup --debug-solver Of course, if you still can reproduce the problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mls@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c8 --- Comment #8 from Michael Schröder 2008-06-18 06:23:21 MDT --- (Jan, I think he already provided the testcase. See comment #5) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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12:39

New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c9 --- Comment #9 from Felix Miata 2008-06-18 06:39:23 MDT --- (In reply to comment #4 from Michael Schröder)

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1) 'zypper dup' is only useful for dist upgrades, it shouldn't be used to keep your system up-to-date

Yet another reason to prefer urpmi --auto-select. ;-) (In reply to comment #7 from Ján Kupec)

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the MozillaFirefox is just an example.

Somebody who actually understands please clarify the provided URL to indicate that, e.g. ...olver <MozillaFirefox> instead of just ...olver MozillaFirefox.

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if you still can reproduce the problem.

This particular scenario probably requires I restore a backup, then do everything all over again. I hope you don't really need that from me. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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12:48

New subject: [Bug 401125] zypper loops when on kernel conflict the "keep" choice is selected

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mls@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c10 Michael Schröder changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|mrmazda@ij.net | --- Comment #10 from Michael Schröder 2008-06-18 06:48:00 MDT --- Use 'zypper up -t package' to keep your system up-to-date. But we're drifting away from the bug. Anyway, I looked at the provided test case, you really had two kernels installed: kernel-pae-2.6.25.4-10 and kernel-pae-2.6.25.5-1.1. The solver test case includes the following requests: <lock channel="http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/" kind="package" name="kernel-pae" arch="i586" version="2.6.25.5" release="1.1" status="U_Lu_"/> <uninstall kind="package" name="kernel-pae" status="I_Th_"/> I'm not really sure where the lock is comming from. Regarding the uninstall, here's where 'zypper dup' creates the wrong request: It wants to erase just one version but creates a "erase all versions" request. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User mrmazda@ij.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c11 --- Comment #11 from Felix Miata 2008-06-18 09:47:52 MDT --- I just revisited comment 0 & attachment 222630 and realized none of the stanzas had a root= where necessary, leaving the system unbootable pending my intervention. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 Duncan Mac-Vicar changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dmacvicar@novell.com Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125 User dmacvicar@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401125#c12 Duncan Mac-Vicar changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #12 from Duncan Mac-Vicar 2009-01-09 04:12:58 MST --- Closing bug. Nothing to do on the solver side. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

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