Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-27 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 25/02/12 10:59 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 25/02/12 07:35 did gyre and gimble: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-26 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 25/02/12 22:37 did gyre and gimble: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:59:39 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you test that generating a new initrd after booting via dracut (and thus getting a hostonly one) does actually activate your usr

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-25 Thread Maarten Vanraes
Op zaterdag 25 februari 2012 08:35:11 schreef David W. Hodgins: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot more stuff

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 25/02/12 05:04 did gyre and gimble: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 25/02/12 07:35 did gyre and gimble: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:59:39 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you test that generating a new initrd after booting via dracut (and thus getting a hostonly one) does actually activate your usr partition? It's working now with a hostonly initramfs. Thanks! Still can't

[Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-24 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi, New dracut. Should help fix graphical issues experienced after switching to xz compressed kernel modules (KMS modules were not include in the initramfs and were sometimes not loaded properly when the real fs kicked in). The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot more I just tried it running dracut in a chroot from mga1, and got the bigger

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot more stuff (e.g. lvm, raid etc) that may or may not be needed on a given setup,

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 20/02/12 23:24 did gyre and gimble: On Monday 20 February 2012 22:45, Colin Guthrie wrote: Can you reliably reproduce this broken initrd (i.e. get the same results from your lsinitrd-broken.txt? And just how do I do that? I got this problem simply by

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 10:36, Colin Guthrie wrote: dracut -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2 lsinitrd foo.img | grep bin/ http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dracut/dracut.txt mkinitrd -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2 lsinitrd foo.img | grep bin/ http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dracut/mkinitrd.txt

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 21/02/12 12:32 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday 21 February 2012 10:36, Colin Guthrie wrote: dracut -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2 lsinitrd foo.img | grep bin/ http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dracut/dracut.txt mkinitrd -f foo.img 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Tuesday 21 February 2012 13:53, Colin Guthrie wrote: You can probably boot to the new kernel using that initrd now. Indeed I can. === $ uname -r 3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2 === And yet again the problem hides itself... :s They are good at that, aren't they? ;-)= -- Johnny A. Solbu PGP key ID:

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 21 February 2012 13:53, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Sadly this test shows things working as expected when you do it manually. Lots of things included now in bin/ and a sensible size from the resulting initrd. (...) And yet again the problem hides itself... :s Maybe an

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 21/02/12 13:33 did gyre and gimble: On 21 February 2012 13:53, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Sadly this test shows things working as expected when you do it manually. Lots of things included now in bin/ and a sensible size from the resulting

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-21 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 21 February 2012 15:26, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Possibly just that sound-scripts actually needs a require on libalsa-data which at very least provides the alsa sound profile which would make that snd-oss.conf symlink exist I'd guess that the link to the current sound

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-20 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 19/02/12 02:13 did gyre and gimble: On Thursday 16 February 2012 15:51, Colin Guthrie wrote: Can someone who can still boot (i.e. into older kernel) post a log of the dracut command and the output from lsinitrd on the resulting image?

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-20 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Monday 20 February 2012 22:45, Colin Guthrie wrote: Can you reliably reproduce this broken initrd (i.e. get the same results from your lsinitrd-broken.txt? And just how do I do that? I got this problem simply by running urpmi --auto-update and rebooted. I've had several reports about this

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-18 Thread Johnny A. Solbu
On Thursday 16 February 2012 15:51, Colin Guthrie wrote: Can someone who can still boot (i.e. into older kernel) post a log of the dracut command and the output from lsinitrd on the resulting image? http://www.solbu.net/mageia-dracut/dracut.log

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-16 Thread Damien Lallement
Le 15/02/2012 11:46, paulo a écrit : Le 15/02/2012 09:36, Andres Kaaber a écrit : I dont know if its a dracut problem or new kernel but with latest kernel + dracut I cant boot - kernel panic ... couldn't mount something :) i can check it 2012/2/15 Olav Vitterso...@vitters.nl: On Tue, Feb 14,

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 16/02/12 14:28 did gyre and gimble: Le 15/02/2012 11:46, paulo a écrit : Le 15/02/2012 09:36, Andres Kaaber a écrit : I dont know if its a dracut problem or new kernel but with latest kernel + dracut I cant boot - kernel panic ... couldn't mount

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-16 Thread Damien Lallement
Le 16/02/2012 15:51, Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 16/02/12 14:28 did gyre and gimble: Le 15/02/2012 11:46, paulo a écrit : Le 15/02/2012 09:36, Andres Kaaber a écrit : I dont know if its a dracut problem or new kernel but with latest kernel + dracut I cant

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 16/02/12 17:25 did gyre and gimble: Le 16/02/2012 15:51, Colin Guthrie a écrit : 'Twas brillig, and Damien Lallement at 16/02/12 14:28 did gyre and gimble: Le 15/02/2012 11:46, paulo a écrit : Le 15/02/2012 09:36, Andres Kaaber a écrit : I dont know if

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 03:55:17PM +, Colin Guthrie wrote: Can everyone please test the new dracut please? Especially those of you who had issues previously that I was able to fix. I just want to make sure I didn't drop any patches that were still needed and make sure new regressions have

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Colin Guthrie skrev 15.2.2012 11:35: 'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 14/02/12 23:21 did gyre and gimble: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can everyone please test the new dracut please? Especially those of you I'll test it shortly. I

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread paulo
Le 15/02/2012 09:36, Andres Kaaber a écrit : I dont know if its a dracut problem or new kernel but with latest kernel + dracut I cant boot - kernel panic ... couldn't mount something :) i can check it 2012/2/15 Olav Vitterso...@vitters.nl: On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 03:55:17PM +, Colin

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 15/02/12 10:09 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie skrev 15.2.2012 11:35: 'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 14/02/12 23:21 did gyre and gimble: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can everyone please test

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 15 February 2012 11:09, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Of course that still leaves distro upgrades, but maybe that can be handled in the installer or by adding versionated conflicts to kernel to help urpmi figure out the order to update... I think the best thing would make kernel

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 15/02/12 12:30 did gyre and gimble: On 15 February 2012 11:09, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Of course that still leaves distro upgrades, but maybe that can be handled in the installer or by adding versionated conflicts to kernel to help urpmi

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Thomas Backlund
Colin Guthrie skrev 15.2.2012 16:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 15/02/12 12:30 did gyre and gimble: On 15 February 2012 11:09, Thomas Backlundt...@mageia.org wrote: Of course that still leaves distro upgrades, but maybe that can be handled in the installer or by adding versionated

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 15/02/12 14:38 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie skrev 15.2.2012 16:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 15/02/12 12:30 did gyre and gimble: On 15 February 2012 11:09, Thomas Backlundt...@mageia.org wrote: Of course that still leaves distro

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 15/02/12 09:36 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 15/02/12 01:38 did gyre and gimble: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can everyone please test the new dracut please? Especially those of

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:10:09 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: OK, that was a very strange quirk it all boiled down to a string comparison function :s Can you try with dracut-015-3.mga2 when it arrives? Still doesn't work. If you cannot boot, you can just pass

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:10:09 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you try with dracut-015-3.mga2 when it arrives? See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4537 Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-14 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can everyone please test the new dracut please? Especially those of you With dracut-015-2, / on a partition, /usr on a lvm logical volume, the initramfs no longer has the lvm2 command, or the dm_mod kernel module