Re: latest update to FC3-test1 hoses the system

[Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Nave, Ronald wrote:

> I just finished updating my system this morning and now find that modprobe
> generates a segmentation fault when I boot up
> 
> As a result I can not load drivers for CD rom , floppy disk ,  ethernet card
> , or USB memory sticks .
> 
> The system boots up , but there is no way to load new files onto the system
> to undo the mess I have gotten into.
> 
> It looks like I may have to reformat and start over.

There were 3 (or more?) threads yesterdy on this topic - and some on
fedora-devel-list. You might want to browse the archives.

Summary: If you are able to boot - insmod should continue to work - so
you might be able to insmod the network module (or floppy) and do the
package downgrades.

Satish