System broken after upgrade to kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16.i686

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 07:33 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 
> > On your failing I686
> > Note I show you the file names as on my x86_64 F16 
> > 
> > I suggest you look at /boot and the sizes of the *.img files for the
> > kernels. If the initramfs-3.3.2-1.fc16.x86_64.img is smaller than
> the 
> > initramfs-3.3.1-5.fc16.x86_64.img it kernel 3.3.2-1 didn't install
> > properly. 
> File sizes look OK.  The latest kernel is slightly larger than the
> last one.
> > I had this a kernel upgrade earlier and fixed it with by
> reinstalling 
> > the kernel it get it to create a proper initramfs file
> > 
> > yum reinstall kernel-3.3.2-1.fc16.i686 
> I have done this.  Unfortunately not change in system behavior.  It's
> broken in the same way as before. 
One last odd thing.  Entries on the grub login menu read like something
like this:
        Fedora (3.1.0-7.fc16.i686)
        Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686
        Fedora Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686 (Recovery Mode)
The first form of entries fails when selected; the last two work.

One last thing that may be worth noting is that the problem system is 
running a system loaded from the Fedora LXDE spin (kernel upgraded once 
successfully) while my other system is running the "main" Fedora release.

All very strange.

jon