Re: up2date oddity this morning

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:06:20 +1100

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:28:39AM -0000, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
> Our system froze up this morning and was recovered with a reboot.

One of my systems also did this.

> 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.

I believe you saw the system hang on a umount after the yum update
created an initrd. The umount is one of the last steps in creating a the
initrd.

So what you are seeing is probably the same as what is reported here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497

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