FC10 Kernel PANIC ... Odd

[Chris Snook]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 	I did a clean FC10 install on a server today.  The installation 
> itself went without a hitch, the system rebooted and came back up.  I 
> logged in, admired the new graphics and then decided to run updates.
> 
> 	When all the updates were done installing, I hit a restart only to 
> be presented with a kernel PANIC.  It won't boot.  And at the time, I 
> didn't have any means of capturing the message either.  It was very short, 
> a one liner at the top of the screen, something with ld.so...yaddi yaddi 
> yadda.
> 
> 	Ok, this is why we have a rescue option, right?  So I booted from 
> the DVD, went into rescue mode and looked at what kernel was installed.  
> Much to my surprise, the latest kernel was installed (from the updates), 
> however it was the .i586 version.  Odd, this machine has never run an 
> i586 package that I can remember.  It's either an .i386 or an .i686, but 
> never .i586.  Could that have been the problem?  Hmm, let's try ...
> 
> 	I force installed the .i686 version of the kernel and kernel-devel 
> packages and rebooted.  Tada!  It worked and came up beautifully.
> 
> 	Inquiring minds want to know: why did the update install an .i586 
> version (when an .i686 version was available)?  The machine has a dual 
> core 3.4GHz Intel processor in it.  Through all of FC7, FC8, and FC9 I've 
> never had problems upgrading the kernel and have never seen it install an 
> .i586 ... till today.  And that failed miserably.
> 
> 	Should it have been able to boot the .i586?
> 

I'd be curious to know if the i586 kernel boots with 'nosmp' on the kernel 
command line.  It's a kernel bug either way, but that would give us a good idea 
where to look.  It's also a yum bug that it got there at all in the first place.

-- Chris