Problem shutting down laptop...

[Jeff Gipson]

>>>Hrm, for me I still have an F16 kernel that seems to be eclipsing the
>>>F17 kernel:
>>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>--
>>>Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc.
>>
>>I also had problems doing an upgrade from F16 to F17 with old kernels
>>laying around. I though it was because I was using grub2+UEFI so the
>>installer couldn't find the grub.conf file. I hand-edited, and haven't
>>had any problems, since, except, I expect the first Kernel upgrade that
>>comes along will also not find my grub.conf.
>>
>>I've probably completely setup my boot loader wrongly, but I suppose
>>that a matter for a separate thread.
>
>I have the same thing, F16 kernel with F17.  Panics during shutdown. 
>Can you provide specifics on how you "hand-edited?"
>
>-- 
>Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc.	|   5 Chestnut Court

	### End of Message from Tim Evans ###

Well, in my case, I believe Anaconda failed to update my grub 
configuration, which resulted in booting a lingering F16 kernel and also 
panics on shutdown.

To remedy the situation, I used vim to edit 
/boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf

In my case, the F17 kernel was listed first, and the F16 kernel was 
second, but 'default=1' was set, which IIRC, is a zero-based pointer to 
which kernel to boot automatically. I changed it to 'default=0' to refer 
to the first kernel (the F17 kernel) and everything was okay after a 
reboot. After the reboot I verified that I was running the F17 kernel 
using 'uname'

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