System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Deron Meranda <deron.meranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more interesting thing... I just completed my reboot, and my
> system now seems quite happy.
> However when I selected the kernel to use in the grub menu, it quickly said
>
>   Loading Fedora (3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64)
>
> even though I had explicitly selected the -2 revision, not the -1.
> However once the kernel
> got control and output its own version it did say -2. And likewise
> /proc/version confirms
> as well that I'm running on the -2 revision.
>
> So I poked around and found this in my /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file...
>
> menuentry 'Fedora (3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64)' --class fedora --class
> gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>        load_video
>        set gfxpayload=keep
>        insmod gzio
>        insmod part_msdos
>        insmod ext2
>        set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
> b9b2e74c-1e4f-49ef-a4b1-687f7a58fa14
>        echo 'Loading Fedora (3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64)'
>        linux   /vmlinuz-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_beryl-lvroot ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0
> rd.lvm.lv=vg_beryl/lvroot  KEYT
> ABLE=us quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>        echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
>        initrd /initramfs-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64.img
> }
>
>
> Notice how the "echo" line has the wrong version number, while
> everything else is right!
>
>
> Is anybody else seeing that?  I just want to know if it is somehow
> still an artifact of the yum upgrade mess I had gotten into?

This is a known bug that affects even fresh installations:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732654

It's completely harmless.

-T.C.