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YESTERDAY I GOT HIT by the sort of inexcusable blunder that only very rarely afflicts Linux users. A maintenance upgrade to Mageia killed my desktop system.
By "very rarely" I mean that this is the first time I can recall something like this happening with a remote maintenance upgrade to a Linux system in over ten years, and I must have run hundreds of software maintenance updates to Linux distributions during that time.
It was a Linux kernel upgrade to Mageia 2, and when it was done my desktop wouldn't reboot, not even in Failsafe single user mode. It just hung with the sort of dire hints in the system log during boot that you never want to see - "runaway modprobe loop" and "kernel panic!" Ouch.
Since Mageia has recently become a very popular Linux distribution for users fleeing Mandriva, presently sitting in second place in page hits at Distrowatch, it has occurred to me that a fair number of other Linux users might have run into the same problem, or might be about to face it. So here I'll explain what happened and outline how to fix it.
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PS: i had no problem at all to update kernel