Fix for broken tumbleweed upgrade to kernel 6.4.6

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I did the zypper dup today on my tumbleweed guests (hosts are 15.5 and tumbleweed).
The boot locked up with a bunch of “bad” messages.
I reset the VM and booted the previous kernel (6.4.4) - the vm came all the way up.
In researching what went wrong - I saw that the initrd for 6.4.6 was way too small
so I typed “sudo mkinitrd” - when it finished - initrd was about the correct size and I rebooted.
Now tumbleweed came up with kernel 6.4.6.

Hopes this helps anyone with this problem.

Tumbleweed guest should ne on 7.0.10 virtualbox as any Tumbleweed host running OpenSUSE.

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mkinitrd had been deprecated before it was retired from TW. How do you still have this command?

The replacement command to generate initrd for all available kernels is dracut --regenerate-all. TW upgrades always use dracut directly now.

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@awerlang a lot of folks kept a copy of the script :wink:

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It is still on all my Tumbleweed machines - I guess I saved it and put it back in /usr/sbin.

It does work fine. I have noted the dracut --regenerate-all is the replacement

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No, the replacement command is

dracut --regenerate-all --force
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That’s exactly the command I saved to .bash_history, but I was wondering for a while since force re-generating feels a bit silly, so I posted without -f. Anyways, thanks for the correction.

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Well, you are welcome to submit an issue to dracut upstream project.