linux-kernel - Re: Kernel binrpm produces brokes grub2 config

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <53D7925A.8080200@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:23:54 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, mike.marciniszyn@...el.com
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	OpenSUSE Kernel Team <opensuse-kernel@...nsuse.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel binrpm produces brokes grub2 config

On 2014-07-29 12:18, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm not sure who to blame, but the below commit breaks the kernel binrpm target for me.
> It produces a faulty grub2 config.
> After installing such a kernel grub2 looks for vmlinuz-XY-rpm and initrd-XY-rpm.
> These files are not existing and the machine does no longer boot.
> Luckily an addition boot entry without the -rpm suffix exists, if remote access works
> one can recover the machine.
> 
> My question is, why do we need these copy of vmlinuz anyway?
> After calling installkernel on the -rpm variants you delete them again...

The typical /sbin/installkernel script does a cp "$2" "/boot/...", so
you can't use the already installed files as its arguments.


> This <insert swear word here> happens on openSUSE 13.1, maybe their installkernel script needs fixing.

I guess that the problem is that grub2-mkconfig sees the temporary
/boot/vmlinuz-*-rpm file and creates a menu entry for it. I guess we
should create the temporary kernel and initrd files somewhere else than
in /boot.

Michal

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/