Re: F12: Latest Two Kernels Won't Boot

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     Hello,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 8:21 AM, N James Bridge <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 15:38 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:30 AM, N James Bridge <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 15:34 -0500, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >>   When a few weeks ago the new auto-updated kernel would not boot,
>> >> used an older kernel, waiting for the next update. This was today, and
>> >> now the two latest kernels don't work. Booting stops after the Fedora
>> >> logo fills up white, after which it says (copying manually from
>> >> screen, whitespaces probably not correct):
>> >>
>> >
>> > This sounds like the bug described here:
>> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F12_bugs#yumex-kernel-update
>> >
>> > You will need to uninstall the corrupted kernels and dependencies and
>> > then put everything back with yum, not yumex.
>>
>>   I don't know anything about yumex. I usually use either yum from the
>> terminal or the graphical software update. In any case, used yum to
>> remove the latest two kernels and reinstall the latest one, but it
>> makes no difference. Not sure what you mean by "dependencies"?
>>
>
> Dependencies are the things that won't work without the item to be
> removed, so yum takes them out too. When I removed the kernel, yum
> listed about 20 dependencies. It will take them all out but it won't put
> them back when you reinstall the kernel, because they depend on the
> kernel, not the other way around. So you have to do it! You can find out
> what was removed by looking in /var/log/yum.log (as root).

  In my case, yum did not list anything depending on the kernel.

     Take care
     Oliver

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