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Hi All
I did the usual procedure and updated my system as it requests but it stalled. I rebooted and tried to start Mageia 5. I run KDE and run Nvidia - Graphics card GeForce 8800 GTS.
It did not start but stalled at ¨OK Started Update UTMP about system runlevel changes ¨
When I reboot and selected ¨desktop 4.1.15.1.mga5 it starts and appears to work fine.
When I select Mageia 5 from the menu system it just stalls again.

What should I do?
Many thanks Roy

when you boot "desktop 4.1.15.1.mga5" have you tried the update again? It may not have finished.

Yesterday, I ran into some of the same issues like Roy described.
A list of packages for updates was presented, among those for kernel and NVidia.

Because i normally do such upgrades first in my test-environment, i quit the update, and went over to the testing-base to try there first.
But when updating, i didn't get any packages of the kind (kernel and nvidia).
Back to my production-environment, those same updates seemed to have disappeared.

This morning i tried again in test, and kernel and nvidia-updates where presented again, and installed without issues.
Back to production the same, and installation of the packages was completed fine.

Seems some of the repositories were not all quite at level (completely synchronised) earlier.
My two cents.

That's very good to do isadora as you can avoid lot of problems by doing that.

I booted to the "desktop 4.1.15.1.mga5" and ran the update with success.
How do I modify the menu system to remove the bad startups eg Mageia 5 (which is the default) or should I do some thing else.

If you think of re-ordering your boot-menu:
this can be accomplished through Mageia Control Centre (MCC) -> Boot -> Set up boot system -> Next

Please Roy, don't forget to mark the topic [SOLVED].
You can do so, by editing the subject/title in the first message in this topic.
Write [SOLVED] to the left of subject/title, thanks ahead. a

Yes that has fixed all the problems. Thank you all for the help.

RoyD wrote:Yes that has fixed all the problems. Thank you all for the help.

Actually that just hide the problem.
A better approach would be to use dracut to rebuild the intrd or just uninstall then reinstall the latest kernel.

Which is better and how would I do that?

I don't know enough about dracut to help with that method but using "Install & Remove Software" would be a simple way to uninstall then reinstall the newest kernel.

As root

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bootloader-config --action rebuild-initrds

to rebuild all the initrds. But that won't help when the kernel has not been completely or not successfully installed.

So better way for only one kernel would be to use

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urpmi --replacepkgs --replacefiles kernel-desktop-4.1.15-1.mga5

to reinstall the kernel, which also triggers a rebuild of the initrd and update of the bootloader for that kernel.

That is Perfect. Thank you All

Well, how exactly did you fix it in the end?

Sorry I thought I would take the better option that you suggested

So better way for only one kernel would be to use
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urpmi --replacepkgs --replacefiles kernel-desktop-4.1.15-1.mga5
to reinstall the kernel, which also triggers a rebuild of the initrd and update of the bootloader for that kernel.

You got me thinking do I need to do something else now??

RoyD wrote:You got me thinking do I need to do something else now??

If the default boot is to the new kernel you're good to go.

I did change it to the default so I thought I was good to go