On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 11:04 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
In that situation my first instinct would be to go into the control
panel and poke around and see if there was something I could fix
there, and maybe search online for an answer. My first instinct would
not be to reboot the system and go into the bootloader menu - it's not
intuitive that the problem happened because of a new kernel, and
usually when I find myself in that situation it really does take me a
while to think it might be a new kernel with a broken driver.
This brings the question, how do you do your update?
I know I'm not he average user but I update via yum and one thing I
always watch out for are kernel update, mostly because it means I'll
have to reboot my machine sometime after that.
So when I reboot and something does not come up, I will likely pretty
quickly reboot on an older kernel to see if that's what has changed (I
must confess, this is a guess since I don't remember when is the last
time something broke on one of my machine with a kernel update).
Pierre