On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:40:56PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Fred Smith > <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 09:36:48PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Fred Smith > >> <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > I tried "yum reinstall" for all the kernel bits of the latest (non- > >> > working) kernel, and it said "not available" for all but (I think > >> > it was) headers. What does "not available" mean here? I mean, it had > >> > just downloaded for installation a little while before, they've > >> > disappeared in the meantime? > >> > >> It might be helpful to include the exact actual error message. Pretty > > > > It's a little hard to get without writing down by hand, unless there's > > a way I don't know of to get panic dumps written out to a network > > drive. > > > > there isn't really any distinct error message, just a panic dump > > full of hexadecimal numbers. > > OK I quoted you above where you said "not available" in reference to > doing yum reinstall. That should not produce a kernel panic and you > didn't previously report that yum reinstall caused a kernel panic; you > said booting caused a kernel panic. I'm not asking about the kernel > panic, I'm asking about the yum reinstall error. You can tell I'm > asking about the yum reinstall error because of what I quoted. So > don't change contexts to the kernel panic when I didn't ask about the > kernel panic. OK, bypassing the yum reinstall errors,I simply booted from a f21 live image and fsck-ed the whole drive, then booted up the last working kernel and removed all the kernel*3.14.27*.rpm packages, rebooted, did yum update and it installed the newer kernel, did a reboot and find we're in business. sopmething mjust have failed in the original install (whenit hung, for whatever unknown reason) and it took the remove/update pair to be run to clean it up. thanks for helping clarify things in my (weak,apparently) mind! Fred -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." --------------------------- Corinthians 5:21 --------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org