FC5 unbootable after yesterday's updates

Fri Jun 9 08:58:03 UTC 2006

Yep, been there and done that. There seems to be a problem with the 2.6.16 
series of kernels. In my case certain apps simply stopped working, and could 
no longer be installed. I found a clunky but workable work around.  You need 
to reinstall your system, BUT...

1) When you get to INSTALL select CUSTOM
2) EDIT your pations  however:
3) DO NOT format  a) your  /  [root] partiton  b) your /home partition , 
Leave data unchanged.
4) IF you have seperate /var and /tmp patitions, format only those.
5) When the screen comes up asking for software to be installed. a) Slect 
all the GUIs KDE, GNOME, etc.  b) Select all  System Tools, and Admin Tools 
there might be one more I can't think of at the mpoment but it might be 
under the graphics. c) UNMARK EVERYTHING ELSE
6) continue with the reinstall.

This will bring you back to the original config with the original setup, but 
you origial data will be preserved and only the corupted files will be 
overwritten.  There are two areas that you may or may not want to update 
they are the kernel 2.6.16 series, and the  xorg-x11 files. I know the 
kernal is a problem, because, after a seperate install of the rpm using the 
rpm -ivh ... .rpm command which installed  the kernel, but left the other 
kernals in place, when I boot into the 2.6.16 series of kernals, someof my 
software stopped working, but if i dropped back to the 2.6.15 series the 
same software that did not run under the 2.6.6 kernal ran just fine. Go 
figure. The best way to figure out where your problems lie is to use konquer 
and go back to the last previous date of yout last update, then check the 
date of your newest update and see what packages have been updated. I would 
again be careful about updating and installing the kernal and xorg-x11 files 
; or slect one or the other and then do the update, if it then fails you can 
then say "Ah-Ha!!

Hope this helps

Bob

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>Did a normal yum update - enabled repos were core, updates,
>extras, kde-redhat-stable, and kde-redhat-testing (both
>kde-redhat include the 'all')
>
>I didn't make a list but the major stuff updated was gnome and
>evolution.
>
>The machine won't boot into current or previous kernel. It gets
>to just before the log-in screen and locks up with a blue screen
>and a frozen pointer. If I boot into run-level 3, I get a log in
>prompt, but it won't accept a user name - it just returns the
>same prompt after entering the user.
>
>On start-up, I see failures to start crond, sshd, cupsd, and
>atd -
>--
>Claude Jones
>Brunswick, Md, USA
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