Yep, been there and done that. There seems to be a problem with the 2.6.16
series of kernels. In my case certain apps simply stopped working, and could
no longer be installed. I found a clunky but workable work around. You need
to reinstall your system, BUT...
1) When you get to INSTALL select CUSTOM
2) EDIT your pations however:
3) DO NOT format a) your / [root] partiton b) your /home partition ,
Leave data unchanged.
4) IF you have seperate /var and /tmp patitions, format only those.
5) When the screen comes up asking for software to be installed. a) Slect
all the GUIs KDE, GNOME, etc. b) Select all System Tools, and Admin Tools
there might be one more I can't think of at the mpoment but it might be
under the graphics. c) UNMARK EVERYTHING ELSE
6) continue with the reinstall.
This will bring you back to the original config with the original setup, but
you origial data will be preserved and only the corupted files will be
overwritten. There are two areas that you may or may not want to update
they are the kernel 2.6.16 series, and the xorg-x11 files. I know the
kernal is a problem, because, after a seperate install of the rpm using the
rpm -ivh ... .rpm command which installed the kernel, but left the other
kernals in place, when I boot into the 2.6.16 series of kernals, someof my
software stopped working, but if i dropped back to the 2.6.15 series the
same software that did not run under the 2.6.6 kernal ran just fine. Go
figure. The best way to figure out where your problems lie is to use konquer
and go back to the last previous date of yout last update, then check the
date of your newest update and see what packages have been updated. I would
again be careful about updating and installing the kernal and xorg-x11 files
; or slect one or the other and then do the update, if it then fails you can
then say "Ah-Ha!!
Hope this helps
Bob
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Did a normal yum update - enabled repos were core, updates,
extras, kde-redhat-stable, and kde-redhat-testing (both
kde-redhat include the 'all')
I didn't make a list but the major stuff updated was gnome and
evolution.
The machine won't boot into current or previous kernel. It gets
to just before the log-in screen and locks up with a blue screen
and a frozen pointer. If I boot into run-level 3, I get a log in
prompt, but it won't accept a user name - it just returns the
same prompt after entering the user.
On start-up, I see failures to start crond, sshd, cupsd, and
atd -
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Brunswick, Md, USA
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