During installation of todays updates, including the kernel, the progress bar stopped, and after 15 minutes, the user tried rebooting, which left the rpm database damaged, requiring the use of rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* and rpm --rebuilddb. lshw shows the cpu is a AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor. While this may be a case of the user being too impatient, there are a couple of messages in syslog that seem strange to me kernel: [514321.688664] bootloader-conf: sending ioctl 5401 to a partition! bootloader-config[23187]: fs::get::device2part: unknown device <</dev/sda8>> Note that /dev/sda8 is the root filesystem.
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I did today's update on my neighbor's 64bit install and also had problems with kernel install. It stopped, we continued to mess around with other things for 5 or more minutes. Still no activity so I had him reboot and and run mcc again to update the system. The last 9 packages went in and the next reboot booted the new kernel. I did not use mcc on my system, just urpmi from a root terminal and had no problems on my 64 bit install.
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*** Bug 7164 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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