В Пнд, 04/02/2013 в 16:45 +0300, Serge A. Salamanka пишет:
> On 2 февраля 2013 15:50:17 Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> >         I did a yum update via ssh on an SL6 server the other day,
> >         noticed that it never indicated complete? Yesterday I began to
> >         have odd problems and after rebooting the server, it wouldn't,
> >         it complains of a kernel panic. Using SL-Live I've installed
> >         another hard drive and transferred file to that, now unless
> >         someone can tell me a better way all I know is to re-install and
> >         start over. That server has been running for a year or more
> >         without a problem, usually it's just there, only shut down in a
> >         power outage and then always restarted without a problem..
> > 
> >       
> >         box7   Scientific Linux 6.3
> 
> I'm using SL5.8
> After a short shutdown today  the machine came up with kernel panic (can't find 
> root).

It's may be consequence of file system damaging or grub
misconfiguration.

But we found & fix some NULL-pointer references in sound subsystem of
last 5x kernel updates:

http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1302&L=scientific-linux-devel&T=0&P=348