Problem shutting down laptop...

[Tim Evans]

On 06/01/2012 10:25 AM, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> 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.

My repo config must not have been reset for fc17 by preupgrade.  Having 
removed the fc17 kernel, yum cannot find it to (re)install--only sees 
fc16 ones.


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