[Yaird-devel] Bug#343042: #343042: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: Boot aborts with message '/bin/cat

Richard Antony Burton richardaburton at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 12 16:24:26 UTC 2005


Package: yaird
Version: 0.0.12-1
Followup-For: Bug #343042

Confirmed Paulo's suggestion above to be working.

This problem is hitting everyone I know who has updated today. The fact that the
broken yaird was released on the same day as a new kernel means that a lot of
people are going to hit this, because they will actually be using yaird today.

Unfortunaly on a couple of boxes I only had the one kernel installed, and with
the minor update it overwrote the exisitng version instead of installing along
side, leaving me with unbootable boxes.

Considering the potential for harm I wonder if there could be something done to
mitigate this happening again in future. Avoiding releasing yaird at the same
time as a minor kernel update would have helped, because the bug would have only
been hit by a small number before it could be fixed. However perhaps the more
important issue is that of releasing minor kernel updates that overwrite the
existing kernel, this is obviously vunerable to more problems than just a badly
timed yaird break. That's obviously an issue for the kernel maintainers.

Richard.

p.s. before anyone tells me, i have been reminded of why it's a good idea to
keep a known working kernel on the box ;-)




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