Description of problem: After letting PackageKit do the upgrade with the latest packages for Rawhide, my system wasn't booting due to a failing GRUB installation. Booting with a rescue image for F9, doing chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda and rebooting fixed the problem. Reviewing gpk-log showed that the new kernel packages (79.fc10) were installed yesterday. Unlike most other PackageKit updates that are in the Updated category, the kernel updates are in the Installed category. I still have 68.fc10 kernel packages installed on the system alongside 79.fc10 packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 79.fc10 How reproducible: Don't know if it would show up after updates on other systems. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: system doesn't boot, GRUB failure Expected results: system boots Additional info:
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
What "GRUB failure"? What did you see on the screen? Perhaps the same as described in bug 450143?
Yes, I was seeing "GRUB _" (underscore being a blinking cursor) on the screen, just as described in the bug you pointed to. Based on that bug descriptions and suggested solution (booting with a rescue image and running grub-install /dev/sda ), this bug looks like its duplicate.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450143 ***