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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1088
2010-01-27 00:24:08
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Name : dracut
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 004
Release : 4.fc12
URL :
http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/wiki
Summary : Initramfs generator using udev
Description :
dracut is a new, event-driven initramfs infrastructure based around udev.
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Update Information:
You want to rebuild the initramfs to test this: # mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname
-r).img /boot/initramfs-old-$(uname -r).img # dracut
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jan 26 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 004-4
- add multipath check
* Tue Jan 26 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 004-3
- fix selinux handling if .autorelabel is present
- Resolves: rhbz#557744
* Wed Jan 20 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 004-2
- fix emergency_shell argument parsing
- Related: rhbz#543948
* Fri Jan 15 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 004-1
- version 004
- Resolves: rhbz#529339 rhbz#533494 rhbz#548550
- Resolves: rhbz#548555 rhbz#553195
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 003-3
- add Obsoletes of mkinitrd/nash/libbdevid-python
- Related: rhbz#543948
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> 003-2
- nbd is Fedora only
* Fri Nov 27 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 003-1
- version 003
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-26
- add WITH_SWITCH_ROOT make flag
- add fips requirement conditional
- add more device mapper modules (bug #539656)
* Fri Nov 20 2009 Dennis Gregorovic <dgregor(a)redhat.com> - 002-25.1
- nss changes for Alpha 3
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-25
- add more requirements for dracut-fips (bug #539257)
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-24
- put fips module in a subpackage (bug #537619)
* Tue Nov 17 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-23
- install xdr utils for multipath (bug #463458)
* Thu Nov 12 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-22
- add module 90multipath
- add module 01fips
- renamed module 95ccw to 95znet (bug #533833)
- crypt: ignore devices in /etc/crypttab (root is not in there)
- dasd: only install /etc/dasd.conf in hostonly mode (bug #533833)
- zfcp: only install /etc/zfcp.conf in hostonly mode (bug #533833)
- kernel-modules: add scsi_dh scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc (bug #527750)
- dasd: use dasdconf.sh from s390utils (bug #533833)
* Fri Nov 6 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-21
- fix rd_DASD argument handling (bug #531720)
- Resolves: rhbz#531720
* Wed Nov 4 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-20
- fix rd_DASD argument handling (bug #531720)
- Resolves: rhbz#531720
* Tue Nov 3 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-19
- changed rd_DASD to rd_DASD_MOD (bug #531720)
- Resolves: rhbz#531720
* Tue Oct 27 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-18
- renamed lvm/device-mapper udev rules according to upstream changes
- fixed dracut search path issue
* Mon Oct 26 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-17
- load dm_mod module (bug #530540)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #538203 - F12 won't boot from an external firewire drive
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538203
[ 2 ] Bug #530898 - dracut doesn't seem to consider /etc/crypttab
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530898
[ 3 ] Bug #527056 - device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device
temporary-cryptsetup-930
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527056
[ 4 ] Bug #540289 - dmeventd errors with snapshots
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540289
[ 5 ] Bug #538696 - Initramfs prompting for password for key encrypted filesystems
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=538696
[ 6 ] Bug #537969 - Dracut does not set the NFSv4 domain
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537969
[ 7 ] Bug #537966 - RFE: dracut option for specifying the NFSv4 domain
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537966
[ 8 ] Bug #537882 - deal with mount options under dracut
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=537882
[ 9 ] Bug #534144 - dracut uses $TMPDIR, even when it's invalid in chroot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534144
[ 10 ] Bug #533897 - /dev/shm has wrong permissions on startup
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533897
[ 11 ] Bug #533712 - dracut: The dynamic shared library
"libdmraid-events-pdc.so" could not be loaded
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533712
[ 12 ] Bug #533177 - rd_LUKS_UUID=... is not respected
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533177
[ 13 ] Bug #520109 - LVM + RAID + LUKS fails to boot using dracut every other time
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520109
[ 14 ] Bug #520828 - failure to start up root on raid 0.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520828
[ 15 ] Bug #524714 - F12 Virt Test Day liveCD kernel won't boot on Nehalem virtlab
machines
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524714
[ 16 ] Bug #526570 - Console font is not loaded as startup
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526570
[ 17 ] Bug #527514 - No root device found, boot has failed using lxde liveCD
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527514
[ 18 ] Bug #541259 - Bug in inst_simple() prevents various required components being
installed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541259
[ 19 ] Bug #542081 - "unexpected operator" complaint during boot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542081
[ 20 ] Bug #542096 - dracut is checking root through all volumes unnecessarily
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542096
[ 21 ] Bug #542481 - Output displayed twice on boot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542481
[ 22 ] Bug #543121 - Does not boot lvm on raid system - volume groups never activated
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543121
[ 23 ] Bug #548274 - can't boot from hard disk if typing is root=/dev/* on grub
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548274
[ 24 ] Bug #548283 - [Patch] Fix PXE booting for livecd-iso-to-pxeboot created images
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548283
[ 25 ] Bug #549344 - dracut messages are printed twice
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549344
[ 26 ] Bug #552080 - LiveCD Fedora12 Boot Parameter Overlay= Malfunctioning because grep
is missing in initrd0.img
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552080
[ 27 ] Bug #554824 - dracut repeats some messages at boot.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554824
[ 28 ] Bug #556687 - dracut-003 doesn't allow encrypted root install to boot
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556687
[ 29 ] Bug #557744 - Modification of SELinux script.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=557744
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update dracut' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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