Problematic FC-5 kernel update

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Mon Oct 23 11:18:13 UTC 2006


Dave Goldblatt wrote:
> I had a catastrophic ext3 corruption several days after the upgrade, 
> while I was doing another yum update.  The system was essentially 
> unrecoverable - no indication of the failure other than a journal 
> error.  Was running 2200smp, on a raid1/lvm partition.
> 
> It had been running for a long time without a hitch (since 2174?).
> 
> Wish I had some useful information, but "my system died" didn't seem to 
> be a useful Bugzilla entry. :-(
> 
> On 10/22/06, *dragoran* <dragoran at feuerpokemon.de 
> <mailto:dragoran at feuerpokemon.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Denis Leroy wrote:
>      > What happened with the FC-5 2200 kernel update ? Looks like it broke
>      > many people's systems (including one of our servers at work).
>     Isn't it
>      > a bit late in the lifetime of FC-5 to release such a new/untested
>      > kernel ?
>      >

I wish to apologize for my unconstructive initial email. I do not have 
physical access to our server that had the upgrade problem, but I'm 
working on figuring out what happened. I'm suspecting a grub problem...




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