On 23/04/15 00:58, Neil Rickert 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)
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015 05:33:00 PM Basil Chupin wrote: 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 -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.6 & kernel 4.0.1-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org