[Discuss] Crash / Reboot

[John Blomfield]

I have now found https://fedoramagazine.org/boot-earlier-kernel/ . I 
will give it a try.

John

On 2020-03-15 1:56 p.m., John Blomfield wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks for the link. dnf is the command line package manager for 
> Fedora replacing Yum. It put me on the right path. dnf.config file 
> allows one to set the number of kernels to retain (default is 3) so 
> I've increased the number to 6 which should cover future kernel 
> upgrades. I have to do more research to find an option for retaining a 
> specific kernel version irrespective of the number of upgrades.
>
> John
>
> On 2020-03-15 1:10 p.m., Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> On 2020-03-15 08:14-0700 John Blomfield wrote:
>>
>>> For the last week or two I have been experiencing my desktop 
>>> computer automatically rebooting, which can be annoying especially 
>>> when streaming. I'm running Fedora 31. I eventually tracked down the 
>>> problem to the last kernel update from kernel 5.4.19 to kernel 5.5.5 
>>> and 5.5.8. Everything is Ok when running 5.4.19.
>>>
>>> So my question is "should I just wait until the kernel is fixed in a 
>>> future kernel update or is there something that can be done now?" I 
>>> am not sure how many historical kernel's Fedora keeps. At the moment 
>>> my system has three. If old kernels are limited to three, is there a 
>>> way of keeping more in case a new verison does not fix my problem?
>>
>> On Debian you can configure apt to pin packages at certain versions so
>> I assume (with some research) you will be able to figure out how to do
>> the same thing with your Fedora package manager.
>>
>> My google search did find one reference for you that might help get 
>> you started
>> which is 
>> <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/403181/how-to-pin-a-package-in-dnf-fedora>.
>> But I am not sure what dnf is so it may not be relevant to you.
>>
>> Alan
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>

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