Re: Just did a yum update for kernel/kernel-devel...now reboot fails :(
"Scot P. Floess" <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:18:34 -0500
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Charles: How did you get the old kernel to boot? It's odd... but it drops in to single user mode...nothing I am able to do at that point... Charles Tryon wrote: > > I had a similar problem. I haven't reported it yet because I don't > have the exact error message, and since the box was running as my main > NIS/NFS/DHCP/DNS server, I didn't have time to fiddle with it. I just > figured out how to boot the previous kernel, and haven't touched it > since.... (Yea, I'm in the process of moving a lot of those services > off to another slightly less experimental server!) > > (I'm on a UltraSPARC II) > > > On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 09:38 -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote: >> All: >> >> I just recently (2 days ago), performed: >> >> yum -y update kernel kernel-devel >> >> After I rebooted my machine (an Ultra 5 running corona), the machine >> drops into single user mode and complains that /dev/sda1 is locked by >> another process... Initially I thought it was an issue where I needed >> to run fsck - but that didn't work either. I am not sitting in front of >> the machine so I am not sure exactly what it said (it may have been the >> drive was already mounted). >> >> Has anyone else had this problem? >> >> > -- > Your Servant, <>< > B. Baggins [email protected] | > http://www.bbaggins.net/ > _________________________________________________________________________ > / "It's the job that's never started that takes longest to finish."/ > -- Samwise Gamgee > -- Scot P. Floess 27 Lake Royale Louisburg, NC 27549 252-478-8087 (Home) 919-754-4592 (Work) Chief Architect JPlate http://sourceforge.net/projects/jplate Chief Architect JavaPIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/javapim QA Engineer OpenQabal http://openqabal.dev.java.net _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html