> > Hi all, > > I have at home a PC (only a 700MHz P3 with 265mb RAM) running > Centos 5 so that I can familiarise myself with the OS without any > fears of messing up the remote Gateway PC on GB7WF. > > Today when I switched it on, there was 165 updates so I let it > download and install them, after a while a message came up saying > to reboot so I did and now it won't start up, it gets to a point > very quickly saying "Kernel Panic - not syncing: Fatal Exception: > and goes no further. > > I can boot it up by manually selecting Centos (2.6.18-53.1.21.el5) > and all seems well. The version it wants to boot up on and fails is > (2.6.18-92.1.1.el5) > > So when I connected to WF's Gateway PC tonight to have a look I see > the same 165 updates are waiting to be downloaded and installed. > > I'm now worried that if I let the Gateway PC update it will crash > as well, admittedly my PC is a lower specification and not running > the G2 software, but is that the problem ? as the Gateway PC is > 2.7GHz with 760mb RAM. > > Anyone else had problems with the updates ? and is there anyway of > rolling back the updates ? > > Cheers, > Mike G1ZRN. >
Well, despite re-installing Centos 5 on my test PC, the updates still cause it to fail as stated above. So until I hear differently I will not be allowing the updates to be installed on the Gateway PC. Mike G1ZRN.
