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--- Comment #6 from Daniel Pisano 2010-02-09 11:18:12 UTC ---
I have just run into this problem myself after a kernel update from 2.6.31.8 to
2.6.31.12-0.1.
The update was executed by kupdateapplet.
Suddenly, the screen went blank and the system became unresponsive. I had to
power-cycle my machine.
After restarting, grub offered a choice between the old and the new kernel.
Grub booted into the new kernel and failed with error messages about missing
modules with "could not load module". The last error message was "unkown
filesystem type 'ext4'" and the system boot halted at the initrd command
prompt.
Booting into the old kernel worked fine, but on the next update cycle, the
kupdateapplet proceeded to remove the old kernel. A reboot left me with no
usable kernel at the "missing modules" state described above.
I had to boot into a live-CD, manually chroot into the installed system,
download an older kernel from a main repository mirror (2.6.31.5) and
force-install it with rpm.
That saved me and I am running that kernel now.
I suspect a serious mkinitrd related to performing kernel updates through the
KDE's update applet kupdateapplet.
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