F12: computer switches off after testing updates

[Martin Sourada]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 08:04 +0100, Stefan Grosse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on monday I updated my F12 the last time including the updates-testing
> repo. Since then my computer switches of before reaching the gdm login.
> I tried to boot without starting X and I also tried other kernels. Still
> all the same, computer switches off.
> 
> When I read the test-list I saw that Bruno Wolff was having a problem
> that sounded like mine. Probably udev is broken.
> 
> But what can I do now to fix this? I do not want to reinstall fedora...
> is it possible to do something with a liveCD that would fix udev?
> 
Log in to liveCD, mount your f12 partition somewhere, mount --bind the
current /proc to it, chroot to it and do yum update \*udev\*. The new
udev fixed it. (I've done this exact procedure, albeit from F13 instead
of LiveCD.) The udev version that works for me is:

udev-145-19.fc12.i686

Martin
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