Hi Steven,

On Jun 14, 2011, at 0:04, Steven Haigh wrote:

> In the latest batch of updates, I installed kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 via a 'yum -y update'.
> 
> It seemed all of my 5 Xen DomUs running SL6 failed to boot upon rebooting. It looks like all of these systems failed at roughly where switchroot is called.
> 
> Interestingly, I could recover from this by shutting down the DomU, mounting then chrooting the DomUs filesystem and issuing:
> 	# rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
> 
> Not sure how widespread this issue is, but I had a 100% failure rate on Xen DomUs. The one bare metal system I updated did so with no errors.

no problems here on the two Xen domUs we're currently running. But then, we're still updating kernels with "rpm -i" rather than yum.

Just a data point.

Regards,
	Stephan

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