<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I've just got the following error message after running 'yum update', updating my kernel to 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>booting fedora core 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>root (hd0,0)</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>filesystem type ext2fs, partition type 0x83</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2142_FC ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet</DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[linux-bzimage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1b659c]</DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2142_FC.img</DIV><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>[linux-initrd @ 0xf638000, 0x1a7a69 bytes</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Uncompressing linux...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>ran out of input data</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>-- System halted</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Rebooting, entering the boot menu and selecting a 2.6.15 kernel causes the thing to start up normally. If I remove this kernel, the PC boots normally. If I put it back, it doesn't.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There's nothing unusual about this PC - it's a £120 "linux pre-installed" (although I re-installed) eSys job.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any ideas what's causing the boot failure or how to fix it?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, now that the PC is booting again, ssh will not start. /var/log/secure says:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oct 3 04:45:56 localhost sshd[2021]: Received signal 15; terminating.</DIV><DIV>Oct 3 04:47:57 localhost sshd[2023]: Server listening on :: port 22.</DIV><DIV>Oct 3 04:47:57 localhost sshd[2023]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.</DIV><DIV>Oct 3 04:53:49 localhost sshd[2843]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.</DIV><DIV>Oct 3 04:53:49 localhost sshd[2843]: fatal: Cannot bind any address</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>are these two problems likely to be related?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Access to this PC isn't easy (remote, lives headless in a cupboard), and I'd really like to avoid a re-install if practical :s</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks in advance,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Paul</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>--<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Paul Rayner</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ylem Solutions Ltd ~ <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>4-14 Tabernacle Street, London. EC2A 4LU</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Office: 020 7074 0220 ~ Mobile: 07739 143 763 ~ <A href="mailto:Paul.Rayner@YlemSolutions.com">Paul.Rayner@YlemSolutions.com</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>