Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/30/2013 07:06 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> rpm -q kernel
>
> This will list all the kernel packages you have installed. Presuming
> that you have indeed booted an older F16 kernel, after running
>
> rpm -e kernel-<version>-<release>
>
> naming the specific F17 kernel package that croaks when you try to boot,
> this should remove it.
>
> After which you should be able to yum update to the most recent kernel
> package, and any other packages that need to be updated.

You can also run this if you prefer:

yum list installed kernel

yum remove kernel-FOO.fc17

Unless you're using something like kmod-nvidia that's kernel-version 
specific there's no real difference.  If you are, yum will clean this up 
as well.