Re: latest updates don't boot

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On 23/08/06, Chip Old <fold@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
FWIW, the issue still exists with Fedora Core 2.6.17-1.2174.  On reboot
the box still hangs at "Making device-mapper control node".

These reports could all be manifestations of this bug that I reported
quite a while ago:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196590

basically, when the installonlyn yum plugin is enabled, a transaction
that requires the installation of a new kernel and removal of an old
kernel, and also upgrades package foo, it may erroneously remove and
install foo during the transaction, rather than updating it. This has
the effect of nuking any config files which are associated with
package foo (moving them to .rpmsave files). If foo happens to be
initscripts, you could end up with an unbootable system - see

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197906

This is a pretty horrible state of affairs - I now resort to forcing
kernel upgrades into their own transaction to avoid this. I am quite
surprised this bug hasn't received more developer time and been
resolved - having a bug in the wild which renders FC5 systems
unbootable is pretty serious. Progress seems to have stalled with the
maintainer of rpmlib.

Jonathan.


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