Bug 96036

Summary:	genkernel 3.1.6 errors making initrd
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	M. Edward Borasky <znmeb>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	genkernel log

Description M. Edward Borasky 2005-06-13 22:34:01 UTC

I have genkernel 3.1.6. I tried rebuilding the kernel 2.6.11-r11 and it errored out after building the kernel -- somewhere during the initrd, I think. Here's a piece of the log ... the whole log is attached:

if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map  2.6.11-gentoo-r11; fi
* Copying config for successful build to /etc/kernels/kernel-config-x86-2.6.11-gentoo-r11
* initrd: >> Initializing...
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.1.5^[[0m

* ERROR: Could not extract udev binary cache!
* -- Grepping log... --
* -- End log... --
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Comment 1 M. Edward Borasky 2005-06-13 22:34:57 UTC

Created attachment 61187 [details]
genkernel log

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-15 11:54:42 UTC

Run emerge sync, emerge the latest genkernel and make sure you run etc-update on
gnekernel.conf. Reopen if issue still occurs.

Comment 3 M. Edward Borasky 2005-06-15 20:26:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Run emerge sync, emerge the latest genkernel and make sure you run etc-update on
> gnekernel.conf. Reopen if issue still occurs.

I've actually done that. I was going to close this as "unable to reproduce"
because only one of my machines is doing this. Something genkernel is looking
for seems to have gotten corrupted on this one machine. I took a brief look at
the script genkernel is calling to do this, but nothing jumped out at me. I also
tried re-emerging "udev" and that didn't help. So ... time to dig into the udev
debugging, I think, unless someone has some bright ideas for me.

Comment 4 M. Edward Borasky 2005-06-18 13:14:12 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)

Well ... I tried a few other simple things and nothing seemed to help. I finally
decided it was time for extreme measures -- reinstall, drop back to devfs, or
something like that. In any event, I cleaned out just about everything from
/etc/portage/package.keywords, did an "emerge -e system" and installed "devfsd".
Something in this must have fixed it; genkernel now completes successfully,
although I haven't attempted to boot the new kernel yet. I suspect it was the
"emerge -e system" that fixed it.

Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-06-21 10:04:11 UTC

Strange... generally this is caused by the config file not updating after
updating genkernel but not updating genkernel.conf with etc-update.