Bug 668352

Summary:	app-admin/eclean-kernel: Invalid magic for kernel file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Andrius Štikonas 2018-10-11 19:52:20 UTC

eclean-kernel has met the following issue:

  Invalid magic for kernel file /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-rc1-00117-g5b32735eb348 (!= HdrS)

If you believe that the mentioned issue is a bug, please report it
to https://bitbucket.org/mgorny/eclean-kernel/issues. If possible,
please attach the output of 'eclean-kernel --list-kernels' and your
regular eclean-kernel call with additional '--debug' argument.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Possibly need EFI stub in the kernel



Expected Results:  
Old kernels are removed

I'm running this on ARM64

Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2018-10-11 20:22:18 UTC

ok, it looks like 1.99.4 does not complain about magic numbers. Although, it did remove some of the files from my currently running kernel, so I had to reinstall it before rebooting...

Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2018-10-12 20:04:30 UTC

I'll reopen this, since 1.99.4 also doesn't behave correctly. It's just that instead of refusing to run due to invalid magic, it tries to remove other files and leaves only vmlinuz in place.

eclean-kernel -p
The following kernels would be removed:

== 4.19.0-rc6-16400-g23adc26c1ac2 ==
Rationale:
[-] stale files (no matching kernel)
Files:
- /boot/System.map-4.19.0-rc6-16400-g23adc26c1ac2
- /boot/config-4.19.0-rc6-16400-g23adc26c1ac2
- /boot/initramfs-4.19.0-rc6-16400-g23adc26c1ac2.img

The following command would be run: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Comment 3 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2018-10-14 12:11:52 UTC

Thank you for the report. Please recompile and 
*attach* the logfiles and 
paste the emerge info as described on
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Attach_the_logs_to_the_bug_ticket
The logs must be part of the ticket, but not on external websites.
We need to have all information at hand before ticket assignment, so that the maintainer can look after it in one session with minimal number of callbacks.
Explain exactly, how we can reproduce it.
Please reopen this ticket (Status:unconfirmed) afterwards.

Comment 4 Andrius Štikonas 2018-10-14 12:19:50 UTC

I can't attach the kernel here. It's jut too big (23 MB). There are no other logs besides what I provided in commit #2.

So what exactly do you want me to provide?