Problem shutting down laptop...

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 03:30:28PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.

That is what I did. I knocked out the 3.3.7-1 kernel from both 16 and
17, then installed the 3.3.7-1 F17 kernel and booted. I haven't tried
shutting down yet but will by end of day.

> 
> >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.

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