Paul Lemmons wrote:
I have been using Fedora since core 2 and I have never had any problems
with a kernel update. Yesterday that changed the new 2.6.24 kernel. I
You have been lucky!
booted the system and got to see it panic and halt. It appears that it
was doing something with networking, but that is not for sure. I gather
that by looking at what it barfed on my screen and picking out the big
pieces :)
I have uploaded a smolt profile of my machine. If you have the same
difficulty 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
Strictly speaking none of that is necessary. I've had something like
half a dozen .25 kernels installed, none working. For a time I was
booting a .23 kernel then I found a .24 kernel that works.
Yum is being stupid about it, so I had to "rpm --erase --justdb" the
known good kernel.
Certainly there's no need to remove the kernel headers.
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:
Dodgy.
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:
- wget
http://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.
Not all of us on the development branch think .25 wonderful.
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Cheers
John
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