Problem shutting down laptop...

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/01/2012 02:53 PM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 04:28:01AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> No, but it sounds like a kernel panic.
>> In my case, it was an obvious kernel panic.
>>
>> AFAIS, the cause was running a Fedora 16 kernel underneath of Fedora
>> 17. Preupgrade (rsp. yum and/or grub underneath) obviously did not
>> upgrade grub2.cfg to boot into the Fedora 17 kernel.
>>
>> For me, rebooting into the F17 installation with the F16 kernel
>> underneath and then explicitly removing and reinstalling the
>> fc17-kernel fixed this issue:
>>
>> # rpm -qa 'kernel-PAE*'
>> kernel-PAE-3.3.7.fc17.i386
>> kernel-PAE-3.3.7.fc16.i386
>
> Hrm, for me I still have an F16 kernel that seems to be eclipsing the
> F17 kernel:

Presence of an fc16 kernel should not matter and not disturb.

Did you try what I wrote?

What I did was to remove the fc17 kernel and to re-install it.This fixed 
the broken grub2.cfg for me.

> mcpierce at mcpierce-laptop:~  $ rpm -qa kernel
> kernel-3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
> kernel-3.3.7-1.fc17.x86_64
> kernel-3.3.6-3.fc16.x86_64
>
> mcpierce at mcpierce-laptop:~  $ uname -r
> 3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64
Once you're running an fc17 kernel, you can remove all these.

Ralf