Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!

[Paul Lemmons]

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 
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

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: 
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.
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