Hi All:

I just downloaded and installed the latest kernel patch for 9.2 which carried a security warning and it crippled my system. It took me best part of a day to repair it and in the end I had to create a new symlink for initrd. Very poor indeed. I hope this does not reflect what is in stall under Novell?

Thanks Paul, has anyone else seen this? Adrian

Paul -- De omnibus dubitandum

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 12:21, Phil Driscoll wrote:

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:52, Adrian Wells wrote:

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Thanks Paul, has anyone else seen this?

SuSE were pretty quick off the mark to warn people about this. This message appeared on suse-security-announce less than twenty minutes after the original posting about the availability of the updated kernel:

I suppose I should be on that :) I also updated another machine that I have at home and had no problems so it is somewhat dependent on installation. The good thing is that I managed to sort it out which is a tribute to the support I have had on this forum over the years so I second Adrian's comments and wish everyone on the list a happy new year's open source.

********************** 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 **********************

-- Phil Driscoll

-- De omnibus dubitandum