[CentOS] Still won't boot - Re: remote yum update aborted with session closing - won't boot
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Jul 2 14:20:12 UTC 2014
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.
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