Fedora 22 upgrade oddity

Jon LaBadie jonfu at jgcomp.com
Fri Oct 16 19:10:57 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:59:03AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 10/16/2015 11:45 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >After the F22 upgrade, the boot would hang at an early
> >stage.  I could still boot F21.
> 
> Actually, what you had was F22 with an F21 kernel, as you'd have seen if
> you'd tried to update your system.  Yes, I know what uname -r would return,
> but that's because it would be reporting (correctly) that the kernel was for
> F21, not that your entire system was F21.  Been there, done that, but in my
> case it was because the only kernel that would boot correctly on my laptop
> was from the older version; I was finally forced to correct it by
> reinstalling.

Correction accepted.  Reword the passage to:

  After the F22 upgrade, booting the F22 kernel would hang at
  an early stage.  I could still boot either of the two remaining
  F21 kernels.
   
But that has little impact on the tale.

Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie                  jonfu at jgcomp.com


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