system reboot always after upgrade kernel

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 01:12 -0200, Brunno Pessoa wrote:
> Hi Zongjun!
> 
> I have the same problem, but I could use my system with no suprise
> reboot. I am not able to use my wi-fi Pentium Centrino and also cannot
> pop mail messages using Evolution.
> 
> Seems to be a kernel problem. Check here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136111
> 
> (tks to michal from this list... he showed me this bug report)
> 
> Seems it's needed to recover kernel with a previous version, bur as a
> newbie, I don't know how to do that... can help me? =)
> 
> Tks,
> Brunno

Your previous kernel *should* still be installed.  It is never a good
idea to install new kernels without leaving a previous working kernel
ready to go, which is why your update programs do an rpm -i (install)
rather than rpm -U (upgrade).  If you installed the kernel with either
up2date or yum you should still have the kernel.  Check with rpm -q
kernel.  Your /boot/grub/grub.conf selects which kernel will be used by
default, make sure it is choosing the kernel that works (not the .624),
the 'default' kernel is zero indexed, choosing default=0 means the first
kernel listed in the config.

If you do not have a previous kernel installed, you'll need to download
the rpm directly from one of the mirrors (hopefully you can find one
with the 610 kernel) and install it with rpm -i.
- andrew

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:54:48 +0800, Linux <zjsun at biigroup.com> wrote:
> >  
> > Hi: 
> >   I use the Fedora 2 on my Intel P4 2.0G, lastday I upgraded my kernel to
> > 2.6.8.624. 
> > But now when boot it reports /sbin/udevstart exit abnormally. and start
> > login. 
> > After logged in less than 1 minute, the system reboot again. And I upgrade
> > the udev to 
> > 0.39 within 1 minute, there is no change. what happens that? how Can I
> > recover my system? 
> >   
> >   
> > thanks a lot for your  help. 
> >   
> >   
> > Sun Zongjun 
> >   

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