up2date oddity this morning

From: Chiu, PCM (Peter) (P.C.M.Chiu_at_rl.ac.uk)
Date: 02/11/04

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:28:39 -0000

    Our system froze up this morning and was recovered with a reboot.

    Having checked the system logs, we suspect that it is relating to the
    automatic up2date job that took place this morning.

    The log /var/log/up2date recorded the update events on gdm-2.4.4.5-1.2, and
    on kernel 2.4.22-1.2166, doc, smp and source. No errors were recorded.

    The kernel-2.4.22-1.2166nptl entry is added in grub.conf, but not the
    corresponding smp kernel.

    I have also found no /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.ntplsmp.img, so tried to
    create one with mkinitrd -v initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.ntplsmp.img
    2.4.22-1.2166.ntplsmp,
    added in an appropriate entry in grub.conf, but the system failed to boot
    off this kernel with a AIC-xxxx version mismatch error.

    Eventually, by forcing a second rpm installation on the 2166 smp kernel, the
    system seems to work okay.

    What I can deduce from this is either there is some hardware problem on
    our local PC - but with no errors recorded in /var/log/messages, or some
    oddity on up2date that failed to produce a working smp kernel, but also
    without
    reported any errors.

    Peter 

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