Fedora Users — Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!

I have been using Fedora since core 2 and I have never had any problemswith a kernel update. Yesterday that changed the new 2.6.24 kernel. Ibooted the system and got to see it panic and halt. It appears that itwas doing something with networking, but that is not for sure. I gatherthat by looking at what it barfed on my screen and picking out the bigpieces :)

I have uploaded a smolt profile of my machine. If you have the samedifficulty you may want to look and see if you see any overlap.


http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_bbdcaa05-e7bd-4ad7-83ca-f822b5b0fb7f

Recovery was a pain...

1) Remove all traces of new 2.6.24 kernel
- I could remove the new kernel, devel fairly easily
- removing the kernel-headers took a lot of friends with it
  - tracked the dependences to reinstall later

2)  Tried to install the 2.6.23 headers and devel
- none of the repos had the "old" kernel files

- after much searching I found:http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=35322

     - got headers and devel packages
     - rpm -ihv the devel and header rpms

3) Nvidia drivers messed up on 2.6.23
  - Tried to install livna Nvidia drivers
     - always tried to drag in the 2.6.24 kernel
     - could not find a way around it

4) Reinstalled development environment lost in step 1
  - yum install gcc gcc-c++ gcc-java rpmdevtools
  - will go back and get the others later

5) Nvidia the hard way
  - yum erase kmod-nvidia*
  - download the driver:

- wgethttp://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run

  - Turn off Xserver
     - telinit 3
  - Install the driver
     - sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run
  -  reboot

6) sigh with relief as I see my twin-view screens come up correctly
7) share experience here
8) will exclude kernel from yum update until 2.6.25 comes out.
  - I see on this list that others have had success with it.

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