yum update crashes os7

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Fri, 10/9/09, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com> wrote:

> From: Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> Subject: Re: yum update crashes os7
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: fedora-olpc-list at redhat.com
> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 9:35 PM
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:55:59PM
> -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> > Since I messed up my installation I re-downloaded os7
> and after a
> > yum update (with corrected repo files) updated 61
> files including
> > the olpc20091009 kernel and after restart it fail with
> a dracut
> > problem.  The attached picture is from the XO
> screen (easier than
> > describing it...:) This is a problem I had seen using
> soas71xo too.
> 
> I can't see the image right now but it might be that the
> new fedora
> kernel has been installed last and "taken over" from the
> OLPC kernel.
> 
> "rpm -e --force kernel" might fix it.
> 
> You should double-check that the symlink in /boot points to
> the olpc
> kernel and that there is no initrd symlink -- since ISTR
> that you're
> using an XO and dracut will refust to boot on that at the
> moment.
> 
> In fact, you might try trashing your /boot/initrd before
> you also
> remove the kernel, in case the Fedora kernel boots (I don't
> know that
> it does, and suspect it doesn't).
> 
> Martin
> 

Martin
The kernel is the OLPC kernel not the fedora kernel (SM's modified repos take care of this).

@Mikus.
The point is that selinux should have nothing to do with this. The fact that depending on the order of update you may have or have not the problem indicates that is a bug of some sort.

BTW when I say update first dracut then the kernel, it implies a reboot in between