[Aurora-sparc-user] Just did a yum update for kernel/kernel-devel...now reboot fails :(

[Scot P. Floess]

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?
>>
>>     
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