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 -- Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist Systems Biology Linker at Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org/sybil) Turning Knowledge Data into Models Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
