Re: Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)

2013-01-31 Thread Wade Hampton
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Varshavchik To: Community support for Fedora users Cc: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:06:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18) Wade Hampton writes: « HTML content follows » I finally decided to update my main h

Re: Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)

2013-01-30 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/30/2013 07:06 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: rpm -q kernel This will list all the kernel packages you have installed. Presuming that you have indeed booted an older F16 kernel, after running rpm -e kernel-- naming the specific F17 kernel package that croaks when you try to boot, this should

Re: Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)

2013-01-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Wade Hampton writes: « HTML content follows » I finally decided to update my main home computer to F18. It was F16 so I had to use preupgrade to go to F17.  After several reboots it is up, sort-of, on the F16 kernel.  I have  had the following problems. 1) Preupgrade crashed due to moodle -- r

Upgrade disaster F16->F17 (planned to go to F18)

2013-01-30 Thread Wade Hampton
I finally decided to update my main home computer to F18. It was F16 so I had to use preupgrade to go to F17. After several reboots it is up, sort-of, on the F16 kernel. I have had the following problems. 1) Preupgrade crashed due to moodle -- removed and update proceeded. 2) After update, I st