On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 05:12:04PM -0600, Chris Worley wrote:
Its very frustrating that updating from Yast causes kernel updates to delete the /lib/modules directory for the old kernel.
If you don't immediately reboot, then any, i.e. USB, devices you plug into your machine after the update don't work.
Thats why you should reboot after installing the update.
Worse, if the new kernel wasn't installed correctly, the old kernel won't boot either lacking needed modules.
Have you really seen such cases or are you speculating?
Yes. It gets the initrd wrong, always. I'd rather just reboot to the old system and fix it manually... but the old kernel's modules are gone and that doesn't boot either. So I wind up booting to single user and fixing it that way. Then, once up, if the kernel doesn't work for my hardware, I can't back down easily. Chris
Ciao, Marcus
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