[mythtv-users] Death by apt-get

[Eggert Thorlacius]

Hello

I know that this is completely off-topic, but I figured that someone 
here might be able to help me bring my machine back to life.

I was running FC2, set up according to Jarods' guide and everything has 
been working perfectly for weeks, so I decided to use apt-get to update 
my system.  Since it is been a while since I updated, apt-said it 
wanted to update the following packages:

   ImageMagick alsa-driver alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel alsa-utils apt arts 
autoconf
   automake gdk-pixbuf gnupg gtk2 gtk2-devel kdeaddons kdeadmin 
kdeartwork
   kdebase kdegames kdegraphics kdelibs kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdepim
   kdeutils krb5-devel krb5-libs lftp libselinux libselinux-devel mozilla
   mozilla-mail mozilla-nspr mozilla-nss python24 telnet util-linux 
xorg-x11
   xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
   xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU xorg-x11-Xnest xorg-x11-base-fonts xorg-x11-devel
   xorg-x11-font-utils xorg-x11-libs xorg-x11-libs-data xorg-x11-tools
   xorg-x11-truetype-fonts xorg-x11-twm xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xdm
   xorg-x11-xfs zvbi
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   kernel#2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma
   kernel-module-alsa-2.6.10-2.1.ll.rhfc2.ccrma libsamplerate libsndfile1
   mDNSResponder

I decided to be cautious and installed only the kernel first and then 
restarted the machine.  When I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" again it 
complained that alsa-lib conflicted with libasound2, so I ran "apt-get 
remove libasound2", "apt-get dist-upgrade" and tried to restart, and 
now my machine won't boot!  It gets as far as "Enabling swap space" and 
then it dies with "INIT: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0x6633d4! 
sleeping for 30 seconds"

I can boot in rescue mode from the install CD so I am not completely 
lost, but I really have no idea how to proceed from there.  I tried 
upgrading to kernel#2.6.11-0.3.rdt.rhfc2.ccrma, but it has no effect.  
Fsck finds nothing wrong, and there is nothing in the logs.

Would updating to FC3 replace enough system components to fix this or 
would it only make matters worse?

Eggert