On 07/02/2014 09:35 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 02.07.2014 15:19, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >> On 07/02/2014 08:41 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 02.07.2014 14:32, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: >>>> On 07/01/2014 06:25 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:19:32 -0400 >>>>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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? >> But how do I determine what package from the new kernel > i said: and after that "yum upgrade" again man if you remove that > broken packages a "yum upgrade" pulls them simply as if they where > never be installed and the rpmscripts will generate a new initrd OK. So... # yum erase kernel* ... Removing: kernel i686 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6 installed 89 M kernel-firmware noarch 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6 installed 21 M kernel-headers i686 2.6.32-431.20.3.el6 installed 2.5 M Removing for dependencies: glibc-devel i686 2.12-1.132.el6_5.2 installed 953 k glibc-headers i686 2.12-1.132.el6_5.2 installed 2.1 M irqbalance i686 2:1.0.4-9.el6_5 installed 64 k mod_perl i686 2.0.4-11.el6_5 installed 6.0 M perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker i686 6.55-136.el6 installed 608 k perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS i686 1:2.2003.0-136.el6 installed 61 k perl-Test-Harness i686 3.17-136.el6 installed 399 k perl-Test-Simple i686 0.92-136.el6 installed 184 k perl-devel i686 4:5.10.1-136.el6 installed 1.8 M redhat-lsb i686 4.0-7.el6.centos installed 0.0 redhat-lsb-compat i686 4.0-7.el6.centos installed 0.0 redhat-lsb-core i686 4.0-7.el6.centos installed 22 k redhat-lsb-graphics i686 4.0-7.el6.centos installed 0.0 redhat-lsb-printing i686 4.0-7.el6.centos installed 0.0 Transaction Summary =========================================================================================================== Remove 17 Package(s) So I am making notes about what is being removed so I can insure that it gets reinstalled with the upgrade. thanks for the help.