Hi Urs,

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 11:08 +0200, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just spotted a problem on a SL system where the root file system is on xfs. After updating the kernel booting into the
> new kernel failed because the initrd had no xfs support.
> 
> The problem is caused by the fact that "yum update" first updates the kernel and afterwards updates kernel-module-xfs:
> 
> yum update
> ...
> Running Transaction
>   Installing     : kernel                                            [1/8]
> ...
>   Installing     : kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5             [6/8]
> ...
> 
> The mkinitrd script executed by the post install script of the kernel package does not have xfs.ko of the new kernel
> available. Therefore it can not build the new xfs.ko into initrd.
> 
> This can be of course fixed manually by running either
> 
> # yum update
> # /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5
> 
> or
> 
> # yum install kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5
> # yum update
> 
> However, I would like to have it fixed in "yum update".
> 
> Can this be built into the kernel-module yum plugin? Troy?
> 
> Or does anybody see how it can be fixed in the kernel-module-xfs rpm?

I guess you could add a trigger on the kernel rpm and rerun mkinitrd
from that.

Or wait for 5.4 :-)

Cheers,
	Stephan

> Cheers,
> 
> 	Urs
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