On 07/02/2014 08:41 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 02.07.2014 14:32, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:

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On 07/01/2014 06:25 PM, Frank Cox wrote:

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:19:32 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:

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How do I trouble shoot this? I am assuming that I only got a partially completed update.

Try yum-complete-transaction and see what happens.

Well it looks like all the updates 'took' /etc/redhat-release now reports ver 6.5.

But still getting a kernel panic and boot failing. I can fall back to the prior kernel and it will boot. So I tried to copy the lines off the monitor, as nothing is getting logged:

IOMMU: failed to mpa dmn 0 kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown_block (0,0) Pid:1, comm swapper Tainted: G -------------} 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.i686 #1

then a a number of dump lines.

The kernel that is working (only other one listed in menu) is: 2.6.32-279.22.1.el6.i686

why don' t you just remove any package from the new kernel which don't work anyways and after that "yum upgrade" again?

Always can count on you for good insight, Harald.

But how do I determine what package from the new kernel is not working to erase and reinstall? If I erase it, will yum upgrade really fix it? Do I erase the new kernel then install it again?

your update was interrupted so the RPM scripts never finished a nd so no initrd created or the interrupt was in the middle of create the initrd which is now broken

that's nothing which can be fixed with just continue the transaction