Fedora Core Five Borked!

[Rick Stevens]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 22:40 -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> My FC5 system died. It won't boot. It gets to a line that says:
> 
> device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> 
> and just hangs. The system has mirrored sata_sil disks, with a couple IDE
> disks and a DVD/RW drive.
> 
> Apparently, from my testing and messing around, it's after a nightly yum
> update that the system quit booting. I reinstalled twice now. The sytem
> rebooted and worked fine, then I did
> 
> yum update
> 
> which updated over 600 packages and the system wouldn't boot the next time I
> tried to reboot. So, this time I haven't updated it and it's booted several
> times just fine. I think I'll go ahead and let it update, then not shut it
> down until a few more updates of things... I did find a google (one hit) that
> stated something about using devel repos. There's one for fedora, which I've
> renamed and I suspect that might be my problem, so may do an update without
> those enabled.
> 
> So, what's the general concensus, if any, on this issue?

Did you try reverting the kernel back to something earlier?  There have
been some issues with udev and later 2.6.16 kernels on some hardware.
Check the archives on the fedora-list.  I can do some research if you
can give me the hardware info.

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