Mike, I installed via YaST... It sounds like I should download and install by hand... Is that correct? Best regards, Erick Sanz
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Rose [mailto:mr349@cam.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:02 AM To: Sanz family Cc: Ralf Ronneburger; suse-security@suse.com Subject: RE: [suse-security] Bad quality of updates from SuSE ftp server
I'm using Suse9.1, so maybe things have changed??
How did you install your new kernel??
Mike Rose TCM & Biological Physics Computer Officer University of Cambridge http://www.bio.phy.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Sanz family wrote:
Mike,
I just installed the newest kernel in my SuSE professional 8.0 so, I tried to see if the last kernel was there...
These are the results:
Superman:~ # uname -a Linux Superman 2.4.21-231-default #1 Mon Jun 28 15:39:34 UTC
i386 GNU/Linux Superman:~ # cd /boot Superman:/boot # ls -lart total 3744 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80324 Sep 23 2003 memtest.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64824 Sep 23 2003 message lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Apr 8 07:11 boot -> . drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 496 Apr 8 07:22 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Apr 8 07:22 backup_mbr drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 560 Jul 21 11:30 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52328 Aug 12 10:21 config-2.4.21-243-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134396 Aug 12 10:22 Kerntypes-2.4.21-243-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630824 Aug 12 10:26 System.map-2.4.21-243-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1187139 Aug 12 10:26 vmlinuz-2.4.21-243-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411413 Aug 12 11:02 vmlinux-2.4.21-243-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Aug 18 14:09 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.21-243-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 250592 Aug 18 14:09 initrd-2.4.21-243-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 18 14:09 initrd -> initrd-2.4.21-243-default drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 520 Aug 18 14:09 . Superman:/boot # rpm -qa | grep -i kernel kernel-source-2.4.21-243 kernel-docs-2.4.21-99
It seems to me as if the last kernel upgrade (2.4.21-243) successfully uninstalled the kernel version I am currently running (2.4.21-231).
Notice that since all the notices about problems with the new kernel, I have not rebooted yet...
Am I missing something?
Best regards, Erick Sanz
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Rose [mailto:mr349@cam.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:40 AM To: Ralf Ronneburger Cc: suse-security@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-security] Bad quality of updates from SuSE ftp server
When using: rpm -ivh kernel-whatever.rpm
you get: ls -l /boot/*previous* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 5 09:59 /boot/initrd.previous -> ./initrd-2.6.5-7.75-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 5 09:59 /boot/vmlinuz.previous -> ./vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.75-default
If you are using grub then a simple bit of editing of /boot/grub/menu.lst something like this: " # color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 10
title Linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 splash=silent acpi=off desktop resume=/ dev/hda2 showopts initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
title Previous Kernel kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz.previous root=/dev/hda1 vga=0x317 splash=silent acpi=off desktop resume=/dev/hda2 showopts initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.previous
title No ACPI, APM, DMA or resume kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal no resume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd "
and you now have the previous kernel available.
Mike Rose TCM & Biological Physics Computer Officer University of Cambridge http://www.bio.phy.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Ralf Ronneburger wrote:
Hi,
to add my 2 cents to the discussion about bad update-quality - I'm also not satisfied the way it works in the last months. And as it is a fact, that there where many problems especially with kernel-updates in the last time it'd be a good idea for suse to not uninstall the
2004 i686 i686 old kernel
and delete it's config but to add the new kernel as default and leave the old one as fallback on the system. It's not that we can't help ourselfs if spamassasin or tripwire are broken, but updating a kernel on a remote SuSE-system these days requires some delight in risk.
Greetings,
Ralf
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