[opensuse-factory] Why is there this difference between TW and proper openSUSE (eg 13.2)?
Whenever a new kernel is installed in openSUSE (or when I run the command in oS, 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg') there are 9 new files recreated.
However, when it comes to Tumbleweed there are only 8 files recreated.
The missing file (in TW) is, for example when kernel 4 was installed, 'symtypes-4-0-0-1.<*>-desktop.gz. This has occurred for previous kernel upgrades so it is not "an ooops" for kernel 4.
Why is that?
BC
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Basil Chupin blchupin@iinet.net.au wrote:
Whenever a new kernel is installed in openSUSE (or when I run the command in oS, 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg') there are 9 new files recreated.
Are you kidding? Please list files that are recreated by grub2-mkconfig.
However, when it comes to Tumbleweed there are only 8 files recreated.
The missing file (in TW) is, for example when kernel 4 was installed, 'symtypes-4-0-0-1.<*>-desktop.gz. This has occurred for previous kernel upgrades so it is not "an ooops" for kernel 4.
Why is that?
BC
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On 22/04/15 18:34, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Basil Chupin blchupin@iinet.net.au wrote:
Whenever a new kernel is installed in openSUSE (or when I run the command in oS, 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg') there are 9 new files recreated.
Are you kidding?
I tend not to "kid" when I ask a serious question as I don't consider this list as a "kidding" forum (except when questions are followed by smilies or other emoticons and/or other 'hanky-panky' is going on here :-) ).
There is one flaw in my question and that is the statement that there are "9 new files recreated" when 'gurb2-mkconfig' is run. Obviously there must be quite a few more than the 9 which I had in mind. So, from this point of view, Mea Culpa.
The 9 new files recreated which I was referring to are to be found in the '/boot' directory. These 9 files are shown here:
and which have '<*>-4.0.1-1.<*>' in their name.
As an example, when running 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' in openSUSE 13.2 the above 9 files with '4.0.4-1' are created when a new kernel is installed.
However, as my original post states, when a new kernel is installed in Tumbleweed the 'symtypes-4-0-1-1.<*>-desktop.gz' file is NOT created - making it 8 files recreated in TW and 9 in oS.
Please let me know if further explanation/examples are needed.
BC
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 05:33:00 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
Whenever a new kernel is installed in openSUSE (or when I run the command in oS, 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg') there are 9 new files recreated.
However, when it comes to Tumbleweed there are only 8 files recreated.
The missing file (in TW) is, for example when kernel 4 was installed, 'symtypes-4-0-0-1.<*>-desktop.gz. This has occurred for previous kernel upgrades so it is not "an ooops" for kernel 4.
The "symtypes" file is part of the kernel-devel (or, kernel-devel-desktop) package. You probably have that installed for 13.2, but not for Tumbleweed. And no, "grub2-mkconfig" does not create or update that file. A kernel update does pull it in if you have the devel package installed.
On 23/04/15 00:58, Neil Rickert wrote:
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 05:33:00 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
Whenever a new kernel is installed in openSUSE (or when I run the command in oS, 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg') there are 9 new files recreated.
However, when it comes to Tumbleweed there are only 8 files recreated.
The missing file (in TW) is, for example when kernel 4 was installed, 'symtypes-4-0-0-1.<*>-desktop.gz. This has occurred for previous kernel upgrades so it is not "an ooops" for kernel 4.
The "symtypes" file is part of the kernel-devel (or, kernel-devel-desktop) package. You probably have that installed for 13.2, but not for Tumbleweed. And no, "grub2-mkconfig" does not create or update that file. A kernel update does pull it in if you have the devel package installed.
Thanks for the response Neil.
Spot on. I should have looked closer - and therefore sorry for the "noise" here - and would have noticed that I forgot to select kernel-devel-desktop. Now that I have, 'symtypes*' has appeared.
But a secondary question now comes up: if TW worked without the 'symtypes*' file, why is 'symtypes*' file is at all necessary?
BC
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