Latest kernel issues.

[Karl MacMillan]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 06:12 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> On 4/17/07, John DeDourek <dedourek at unb.ca> wrote:
> > David Hunter wrote:
> > > I´ve updated to the latest kernel version in rawhide
> > > (kernel-2.6.20-1.3071.fc7) on a Celeron 500Mhz machine, also have the
> > > kernel version (kernel-2.6.20-1.3066.fc7) installed. The newer kernel
> > > fails to boot as there is a message to the effect of no int found or
> > > something similar, the oldereer kernel boots the system ok, although
> > > alot of the services fail to start. Any workarounds or fixes?
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Hunter
> > I have this problem with an IBM Thinkpad T42.  See my recent
> > posts on fedora-list (search for dedourek at unb.ca).  It appears
> > that the kernel cannot access the disks on some machines.  Best
> > current guess is that it may be related to moving the necessary
> > drivers from being built-in to the kernel to being loaded
> > as modules.  But this is NOT YET CONFIRMED.
> >
> 
> My newbie nephew was having the 'no init' problem when upgrading from
> a stock fc6. Prior to the 3071 kernel upgrade yesterday I had him turn
> selinux off. His subsequent 3071 boot was successful.
> 
> His system-config-wireless-gui failed because it was unable to import
> the gnome library, which is also  a bit suspicious.
> 
> If you haven't already done so, you might want to try turning selinux
> off, at least during the yum kernel upgrade.
> 

Any avc messages (in /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log)? If
you have it installed you can also run audit2allow < /var/log/messages
for better output.

In the future you might consider permissive temporarily (setenforce 0)
rather than disabling. That should allow you to turn selinux back into
enforcing mode when the policy packages are updated.

Thanks - Karl

> darrell
>