On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:28:39AM -0000, Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote: > Our system froze up this morning and was recovered with a reboot. One of my systems also did this. > The kernel-2.4.22-1.2166nptl entry is added in grub.conf, but not the > corresponding smp kernel. > > I have also found no /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.ntplsmp.img, so tried to > create one with mkinitrd -v initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.ntplsmp.img > 2.4.22-1.2166.ntplsmp, > added in an appropriate entry in grub.conf, but the system failed to boot > off this kernel with a AIC-xxxx version mismatch error. > > Eventually, by forcing a second rpm installation on the 2166 smp kernel, the > system seems to work okay. I believe you saw the system hang on a umount after the yum update created an initrd. The umount is one of the last steps in creating a the initrd. So what you are seeing is probably the same as what is reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
