[CentOS] Problems after update to 5.5

[C Linus Hicks]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 01:20 -0400, JohnS wrote:
> I am just wondering if any of you guys with the udev hang problem have
> tried:
> rpm -e the new kernel?  Then try to reinstall it via yum install.  You
> should delete the new kernel from /var/cache/yum first.
> 
> Just a point in why I say that is I have seen several machines that have
> yummed corrupt packages and bad repo metadata.  After pegging yum to
> pull from a distinct mirror the problem has gone away.
> 
> John

How about this: I downloaded the new kernel rpm again manually then used
rpm2cpio to load the files into a work directory then ran this script:

$ rpm -qlp ../kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | while read rl
do
  rstr=$(cmp $rl .$rl 2>&1)
  rc=$?
  if (( rc != 0 )); then
    echo $rstr | grep -v "Is a directory" > /dev/null
    rc=$?
    if (( rc == 0 )); then
      echo "Error: $rstr"
    fi
  fi
done
Error: cmp: ./boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img: No such file or directory
Error: cmp: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/build: No such file or directory
Error: cmp: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/source: No such file or directory