core 6 issues (shutdown problems)

[JJ JJ]

>Hi JJ. Glad you got to shutdown completely using the earlier kernel. You 
>have
>obviously done a yum update, and a newer kernel was installed. If you are
>using yum for updates, and want to keep the kernel that is shutting down 
>ok,
>you need the edit something. Yum as default only keeps 2 kernels, so if you
>run yum update again, and there is a yet newer kernel, it will install 
>that,
>and remove the oldest one, which in your case is the one you want to keep.
>
>You can change this behaviour by either disabling the plugin, or changing 
>the
>number of kernels to save.
>
>Open the CLI, and su to root, open a text editor, go
>to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf.
>
>My FC6 one looks like this.
>
>[main]
>enabled=0
># this sets the number of package versions which are kept
>tokeep=2
>
>I just disable the plugin by just changing "enabled=1 to enabled=0", but 
>you
>can just change the "tokeep=2" to whatever number you like. 5 might be a 
>good
>number. It's possible that the next kernel update from the one that's not
>shutting down completely will again shutdown completely, but you can't be
>sure, so you want to keep the 2.6.18 one which is doing what you want.
>
>After saving the changes, keep the text editor open, and go
>to /boot/grub/grub.conf .  Afew lines down you'll see this.
>
>#boot=/dev/hda
>default=3
>timeout=30
>splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>title Fedora Core (2.6.10-2.3.legacy_FC2)
>
>I say this, but this is from FC2. The "default" line sets the kernel you 
>want
>to boot. Grub starts at "0", so you can change this to "1", then at the
>moment it will boot the 2.6.18 kernel that works ok. The "timeout" line I
>have already changed. The default is 5 secs, and it's worth changing this 
>to
>30, as it gives you a bit more time to make decisions as to which kernel 
>you
>want to boot. The next line "splashimage" IIRC is "hiddenimage" on FC5, and
>FC6. if you are not seeing the grub menu when you bootup, you can put a "#"
>at the start of this line (no double quotes), which will comment out the
>line.
>
>Just a few suggestions, so you don't lose your working kernel, along with 
>the
>grub stuff.
>
>Nigel.
>
>Btw. I use apt, and synaptic as update managers, so am not involved in this
>ptential kernel problem with yum.

Hey Nigel,
thank you for the suggestions, much appreciated.
Jessica.

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