Saturday, April 14, 2007

Ubuntu Kernel Panic

I have been running Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty) beta for a few weeks now, and yesterday there was an update that caused the computer to fail to boot. The kernel 2.6.20-14 would return errors about hard drive space and files even though there were no errors.

Fortunately I still had two previous kernels. I was able to boot with one of them in recovery mode, then install the newly released 2.6.20-15 kernel. That fixed the problem and I was able to boot. I had to rebuild the Nvidia drivers and VMware to work with the new kernel, but I finally have everything working again.

The final version of 7.04 is due out on the 19th. Hopefully I won't get any more scares before then.

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