RVDowning Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Did the usual update yesterday evening and noticed that it included kernel updates. I didn't think it usually did that. Anyway, I competed the update but unfortunately forgot to reboot my system at the time. So, it was only this morning that I noticed that a reboot failed. It didn't boot into KDE. When I logged on it got some kind of "keychain" error. When I tried a startx I got all kinds of errors back to the screen, so I was stuck in terminal mode. I was also unable to do a startx from any of the previous grub entries for previous kernels. It seems this update totally hosed my system. So, I kicked off a full system restore from my most recent backup just before I left for work. Guess I'll find out later today whether it was successful or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbuckley2004 Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 Hum. Are you running 2008, RV? I did the update, got the kernel and updates for MADWiFi and NVidia, but was able to reboot an hour or so later, seemingly with no problems. Just a data point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVDowning Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 Yes, forgot to say, 2008.0. I think the problem may be Nvidia driver related. It may have done something to the dkms modules. I just saw a thread on the Mandriva forum: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=80350 which seems to indicate that I am not alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 I too updated my Mandriva 2008 last night. The kernel updates did not seem to create any problems for my old-school GeForce2 video card. However, with the new kernel(s) installed, my system is sssllloowww and unresponsive. All was well before the updates..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 Just to add to this I have posted in the Mandriva Club forum. I will let everyone here know what response I get. http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=80415 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted February 14, 2008 Share Posted February 14, 2008 (edited) For those who don't visit the official forum regularly and met with this problem: click Edited February 14, 2008 by dexter11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 (edited) I have resolved my sluggishness problem caused by the kernel update. The sluggishness was actually a momentary mouse freezing under any kind of CPU load. The newer kernel appears to have problems with my KVM switch. When I added psmouse.proto=exps to the append line of lilo.conf my problems went away. Sometimes life seems too complicated.... ;) These are the errors in /var/log/messages that help me resolve the problem: Feb 14 22:20:26 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout Feb 14 22:20:26 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. Feb 14 22:20:27 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: resync failed, issuing reconnect request Edited February 16, 2008 by daniewicz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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