Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Sunday 2006-09-17 at 20:35 -0400, Ed McCanless wrote:


> I still have your instructions, I am saving all comments on this issue, and
> plan to put them on a permanent disc for future reference.
> The installation media I have is the iso CD set which I downloaded in July and
> installed about the 1st of Aug.
> 
> If I understand correctly, I can re-install the old kernel and then try the
> update again, possibly from source other than on line update, so I can have a
> saved rpm source to work from.

There are many ways to skin a cat :-)

You may reinstall the kernel from the CD, boot the system and finally, 
fire up YOU again to try the update. You shouldn't have problems, these 
things are rare, but cross your fingers (it did happen to me once, and 
here I am ;-) )

Or, using another computer, you may download the kernel rpms and install 
it directly. In my system, YOU installed these this time:

  kernel-source   2.6.16.21 0.21 
  udev            085 30.13
  mkinitrd        1.2 106.18 
  kernel-default  2.6.16.21 0.21
  kernel-syms     2.6.16.21 0.21 

I got the list from the command:
rpm -q -a --queryformat "%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:day}  %{BUILDTIME:day}%-30{NAME}\t%{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %35{PACKAGER}\n" | sort | less -S

Yours might be slightly different.


By the way, I like to have another small linux system in the same computer 
to use in these occasions. More comfortable than using the rescue system 
on CD, more powerful.

> But, I do want to give Joe a chance to help me learn as much as possible about
> what has happened.

Ok :-)

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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