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CaesarTjalbo
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Post subject: kernel-remover oddity
 Posted: 17.07.2012, 23:08
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It's a pretty irrelevant observation but technically speaking it's still a bug: the kernel-remover script does weird things when it can't find a /boot directory.
Afaik it lists the contents of the current directory as options to delete, correct behavior would be to exit with an error message.
Feel free to ignore it though. |
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slh
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Post subject: RE: kernel-remover oddity
Posted: 18.07.2012, 01:02
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What do you understand under "can't find a /boot/ directory"?
- there being no /boot/ directory under / (e.g. some partial chroot environment)
- it being not allowed to be read by root, but physically present
- implications from read-only root configurations
- a separate /boot/ partition which is just not mounted at the moment (so an empty, but present /boot/)
- some netboot or external boot (kvm with kernel/ initrd supplied via cli arguments) environment (please specify)
- something totally different
Knowing the exact error condition would help a lot for fixing it (and to confirm if it really got fixed). |
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CaesarTjalbo
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Post subject: Re: RE: kernel-remover oddity
Posted: 18.07.2012, 08:34
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slh wrote:
- there being no /boot/ directory under /
Separate boot partition mounted under otherwise empty (root)/boot/ directory. I was struggling to solve a grub issue and had the /boot/ directory removed and forgot to put it back.
System boots and works normally. Running kernel-remover gives reported strange behavior.
Reproduction: on normal running system, rename existing /boot/ directory to something else, run kernel-remover (-F text), note the entries. Change working directory, repeat. (*)
I know it's a silly situation which shouldn't occur on any normal system but perhaps you can imagine my surprise when I stared at the options presented by kernel-remover.
(*) edit: don't forget to name it back. |
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slh
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Post subject: RE: Re: RE: kernel-remover oddity
Posted: 19.07.2012, 00:19
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| Thanks, we will look at this problem soon (it's not fixed in 3.1.7 yet). |
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