Ubuntu
livecd-rootfs package

  1. Dapper (6.06)
  2. Bug #52679
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 52679

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Brian Campbell (bacam) wrote : Linux upgrade doesn't update symlinks used by yaboot

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.15-26-powerpc

The Linux kernel upgrades for dapper quietly fail because they update the initrd.img and vmlinux symlinks in /, but not the ones in /boot which yaboot uses. The result is that after reboot I'm still using the old (vulnerable) kernel.

This copy of dapper was a fresh install just after dapper came out, and /etc/yaboot.conf hasn't been altered by hand - it always referred to /boot/initrd.img and /boot/vmlinux (and .old symlinks, which don't exist).