F16 kernel 3.3.7-1 missing initramfs?

[markf]

I updated to kernel 3.3.7-1 yesterday and after a reboot it panics out.
looking in /boot, i see there's no initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img

i've tried looking for this file in the rpm, but although the archive reports it available, it seems to be missing, i tried this:

yumdownloader --destdir /tmp/ kernel

rpm -qpl /tmp/kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm  | while read f; do if [[ ! -f "$f" && ! -d "$f" ]] ; then echo "could not find $f"; fi; done
> could not find /boot/initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img

rpm2cpio /tmp/kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm | cpio -ivd
find . -name init\*
> ./lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko

so it's not extracting the file initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img even though rpm -qpl is saying it's in the archive.

At the moment i'm having to boot to previous kernel, but is there anything wrong with either the kernel rpm, or how can i fix my problem if i can't extract the file from the archive?

thanks,

Try

su
dracut -v -f -H /boot/initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64

[markf]

Thanks for that, it created the initramfs file (after lots of dependency warnings), but it still didn't boot.

Here's the run of the command:

$ dracut -v -f -H /boot/initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
I: *** Including module: dash ***
I: *** Including module: i18n ***
I: *** Including module: rpmversion ***
I: *** Including module: plymouth ***
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
I: *** Including module: dm ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
I: *** Including module: kernel-modules ***
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
E: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64/modules.dep: No such file or directory
I: *** Including module: lvm ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 64-device-mapper.rules
I: *** Including module: resume ***
I: *** Including module: rootfs-block ***
I: *** Including module: terminfo ***
I: *** Including module: udev-rules ***
I: Skipping udev rule: 50-udev.rules
I: Skipping udev rule: 95-late.rules
I: *** Including module: biosdevname ***
I: *** Including module: base ***
I: *** Including module: fs-lib ***
I: Skipping program jfs_fsck as it cannot be found and is flagged to be optional
I: Skipping program reiserfsck as it cannot be found and is flagged to be optional
I: *** Including module: shutdown ***
I: Skipping program kexec as it cannot be found and is flagged to be optional
I: *** Including modules done ***
I: Wrote /boot/initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img:
I: -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6531927 Jun 10 11:01 /boot/initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img

Looking at the generated file, it's very small compared to the others in my boot dir:

-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  17M Apr 29 23:02 initramfs-3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64.img
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  17M May 11 20:56 initramfs-3.3.4-3.fc16.x86_64.img
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 6.3M Jun 10 10:43 initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img

There's plenty of space on my /boot partition (387M), so not a disk full issue.

The error I'm getting on boot (for completeness) is:

loading initial ramdisk
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
...

Any other way I can get a valid initramfs for 3.3.7-1?

Thanks,

Originally Posted by markf

Thanks for that, it extracted the file (after lots of dependency warnings), but it still didn't boot.
Looking at the extracted file, it's very small compared to the others in my boot dir:

-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  17M Apr 29 23:02 initramfs-3.3.2-6.fc16.x86_64.img
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root  17M May 11 20:56 initramfs-3.3.4-3.fc16.x86_64.img
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 6.3M Jun 10 10:43 initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img

There's plenty of space on my /boot partition (387M), so not a disk full issue.

The error I'm getting on boot (for completeness) is:

loading initial ramdisk
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
...

Any other way I can pull this file out?

Thanks,

Try reinstalling the kernel

su
yum reinstall kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64

[george_toolan]

Don't bother with this and try kernel 3.3.8 ;-)

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel

Or try to remove the old kernel and then reinstall kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm which does contain /boot/initramfs-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img

[markf]

Thanks all, I've upgraded to test version 3.3.8-1 and it's booting fine again.