Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Mar 15 10:56:07 UTC 2008
Paul Lemmons wrote:
> I have been using Fedora since core 2 and I have never had any problems
> with a kernel update. Yesterday that changed the new 2.6.24 kernel. I
You have been lucky!
> booted the system and got to see it panic and halt. It appears that it
> was doing something with networking, but that is not for sure. I gather
> that by looking at what it barfed on my screen and picking out the big
> pieces :)
>
> I have uploaded a smolt profile of my machine. If you have the same
> difficulty you may want to look and see if you see any overlap.
>
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_bbdcaa05-e7bd-4ad7-83ca-f822b5b0fb7f
>
> Recovery was a pain...
>
> 1) Remove all traces of new 2.6.24 kernel
> - I could remove the new kernel, devel fairly easily
> - removing the kernel-headers took a lot of friends with it
> - tracked the dependences to reinstall later
Strictly speaking none of that is necessary. I've had something like
half a dozen .25 kernels installed, none working. For a time I was
booting a .23 kernel then I found a .24 kernel that works.
Yum is being stupid about it, so I had to "rpm --erase --justdb" the
known good kernel.
Certainly there's no need to remove the kernel headers.
>
> 2) Tried to install the 2.6.23 headers and devel
> - none of the repos had the "old" kernel files
> - after much searching I found:
Dodgy.
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=35322
> - got headers and devel packages
> - rpm -ihv the devel and header rpms
>
> 3) Nvidia drivers messed up on 2.6.23
> - Tried to install livna Nvidia drivers
> - always tried to drag in the 2.6.24 kernel
> - could not find a way around it
>
> 4) Reinstalled development environment lost in step 1
> - yum install gcc gcc-c++ gcc-java rpmdevtools
> - will go back and get the others later
>
> 5) Nvidia the hard way
> - yum erase kmod-nvidia*
> - download the driver:
> - wget
> http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run
>
> - Turn off Xserver
> - telinit 3
> - Install the driver
> - sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run
> - reboot
>
> 6) sigh with relief as I see my twin-view screens come up correctly
> 7) share experience here
> 8) will exclude kernel from yum update until 2.6.25 comes out.
> - I see on this list that others have had success with it.
Not all of us on the development branch think .25 wonderful.
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Cheers
John
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