fedora 11 upgrade problem kernel PAE/kernel default

[Martin Pail]

hi all,

since the upgrade to fedora 11 I have the following problem:

fedora starts quickly with the PAE kernel, everything is okay, the login manager appears
everything works fine

but booting with kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 fedora freezes after startup.........black screen.......


??????

please help

thanks martin



[martin@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i586
kmod-nvidia-PAE-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i686
kmod-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i586
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.i586


[martin@localhost ~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
fuse 49460 2
bridge 43864 0
stp 1964 1 bridge
llc 4936 2 bridge,stp
bnep 14908 2
sco 16160 2
l2cap 32420 3 bnep
bluetooth 77096 5 bnep,sco,l2cap
sunrpc 155672 1
ip6t_REJECT 4532 2
ip6t_ipv6header 1836 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 17732 5
ip6table_filter 3144 1
ip6_tables 10956 2 ip6t_ipv6header,ip6table_filter
ipv6 235648 26 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
p4_clockmod 4344 0
dm_multipath 14036 0
uinput 6676 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 193456 1
ppdev 6492 0
parport_pc 22608 0
snd_hda_intel 24272 2
parport 28976 2 ppdev,parport_pc
floppy 47252 0
i2c_i801 10204 0
snd_hda_codec 59428 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
nvidia 9579020 26
snd_hwdep 6724 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 62752 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
r8169 28412 0
mii 4044 1 r8169
iTCO_wdt 10360 0
iTCO_vendor_support 2752 1 iTCO_wdt
pcspkr 2168 0
i2c_core 25024 2 i2c_i801,nvidia
snd_timer 17864 1 snd_pcm
usb_storage 46644 2
snd 50336 10 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5476 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7776 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ata_generic 4288 0
pata_acpi 3644 0


[martin@localhost ~]$ lspci
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS (rev a1)


[martin@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE
[martin@localhost ~]$


martin@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-firmware-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.noarch
kernel-headers-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586
kernel-devel-2.6.27.29-170.2.79.fc10.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.27.30-170.2.82.fc10.i686
kernel-PAE-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686
kernel-devel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686
kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586
[martin@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i586
kmod-nvidia-PAE-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i686
kmod-nvidia-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i586
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i686.PAE-185.18.36-1.fc11.2.i686
[martin@localhost ~]$

[martin@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 22
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 430 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1800.000
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe lm constant_tsc up arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm
bogomips : 3590.95
clflush size : 64
power management:

[stoat]

Hello Martin Pail,

Fedora 11 no longer has the traditional three 32-bit kernels (i586, i686, i686 PAE). It only has the i586 and i686 PAE kernels. That fact has led to several incidents like yours recently. And it has been documented here to occur with other kmods besides kmod-nvidia. Anyway, what you can do is reboot into your F11 PAE kernel and remove the i586 F11 kernel and kmod-nvidia stuff. If necessary, remove all of the F11 kmod stuff and re-install kmod-nvidia-PAE. This thread is an example and has links to more victims...

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=231026

If you need more assistance, then return here and describe what went wrong.

[Martin Pail]

thanks very much,

sounds good, but why did fedora upgrade install the i586 kernel ?? I am confused.

Because I did install the PAE kernel manually after the upgrade because the system did not work

martin