All config files need .conf" messages after upgrade to 11.2

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I just upgraded an 11.1 install to 11.2. The upgraded system appears fully functional but I get many “all config files need .conf” warning messages during boot. See below.

http://images.omnipath.net/warnings.jpg

I also did a clean install on another system to compare and the clean install does not exhibit the same behavior so the warnings are evidently related to it being an upgrade. The system’s working but I would like to understand why this is happening and clean it up. This system provides some key services to my networks and I have spent a lot of time getting this and the systems it interacts with “just right” under 11.1 and I am not particularly interested in starting over except as a last resort.

Thanks for any advice,

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Thought of some more info that might be helpful.

The module-renames file no longer exists. It existed immediately after the upgrade but I investigated it as a result of these warnings. These warnings appeared, for example, when the vmtoolsd service started. “rpm -qf” showed it belonged to “kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.23-0.1.1.i586” which I believe was the kernel package 11.1 had been using… but for some reason was not removed during the upgrade. I removed that kernel and two other dependencies as follows:

rpm -e vmware-kmp-pae-2008.09.03_2.6.27.19_3.2-5.50.6.i586
rpm -e iscsitarget-kmp-pae-0.4.15_2.6.27.19_3.2-89.11.6.i586
rpm -e kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.23-0.1.1.i586

Removing these packages as shown here removed the warnings when vmtoolsd and several other services started… but not the early boot messages as shown in the image above.

Thanks

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Hi

I had the same issues.

I could get rid of the warnings in the early boot process by rebuilding the /boot/initrd… inital ram disk content.

as root:

mkinitrd

unverified guess: the unwanted files in /etc/modprobe.d still existed in initrd.

cheers.