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Subject:    Re: core 6 issues (shutdown problems)
From:       "JJ JJ" <jj28h () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2007-04-30 9:51:25
Message-ID: BAY102-F291D3CAA60A67A73039FF3AD4C0 () phx ! gbl
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> Hi JJ. Glad you got to shutdown completely using the earlier kernel. You 
> have
> obviously done a yum update, and a newer kernel was installed. If you are
> using yum for updates, and want to keep the kernel that is shutting down 
> ok,
> you need the edit something. Yum as default only keeps 2 kernels, so if you
> run yum update again, and there is a yet newer kernel, it will install 
> that,
> and remove the oldest one, which in your case is the one you want to keep.
> 
> You can change this behaviour by either disabling the plugin, or changing 
> the
> number of kernels to save.
> 
> Open the CLI, and su to root, open a text editor, go
> to /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf.
> 
> My FC6 one looks like this.
> 
> [main]
> enabled=0
> # this sets the number of package versions which are kept
> tokeep=2
> 
> I just disable the plugin by just changing "enabled=1 to enabled=0", but 
> you
> can just change the "tokeep=2" to whatever number you like. 5 might be a 
> good
> number. It's possible that the next kernel update from the one that's not
> shutting down completely will again shutdown completely, but you can't be
> sure, so you want to keep the 2.6.18 one which is doing what you want.
> 
> After saving the changes, keep the text editor open, and go
> to /boot/grub/grub.conf .  Afew lines down you'll see this.
> 
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=3
> timeout=30
> splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.6.10-2.3.legacy_FC2)
> 
> I say this, but this is from FC2. The "default" line sets the kernel you 
> want
> to boot. Grub starts at "0", so you can change this to "1", then at the
> moment it will boot the 2.6.18 kernel that works ok. The "timeout" line I
> have already changed. The default is 5 secs, and it's worth changing this 
> to
> 30, as it gives you a bit more time to make decisions as to which kernel 
> you
> want to boot. The next line "splashimage" IIRC is "hiddenimage" on FC5, and
> FC6. if you are not seeing the grub menu when you bootup, you can put a "#"
> at the start of this line (no double quotes), which will comment out the
> line.
> 
> Just a few suggestions, so you don't lose your working kernel, along with 
> the
> grub stuff.
> 
> Nigel.
> 
> Btw. I use apt, and synaptic as update managers, so am not involved in this
> ptential kernel problem with yum.

Hey Nigel,
thank you for the suggestions, much appreciated.
Jessica.

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