[CentOS] Re: Subject: "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

[Lanny Marcus]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:41 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:
> on 5-6-2008 2:49 PM lannyma at gmail.com spake the 
> following:
<snip>
> > [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel*
> > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5
> > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> > [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ uname -a
> > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT
> > 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$
<snip>
> It sounds like the last kernel upgrade didn't finish the %post% scripts. The 
> easiest thing to try would be to rpm -e the new kernel and try a yum upgrade 
> again.
> Another thing to check... Is there a symlink from /boot/grub/menu.lst to 
> /boot/grub/grub.conf?
> I have had that on my systems since time began and maybe it is a requirement 
> for things to work right. Just a guess.

Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them
and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her box.
How do I locate them? Practicing on my box (wife is using her box) and
rpm -qi shows a lot of information about the files but doesn't show
where they are located. TIA, Lanny