On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 03:48:31PM -0600, Scott Dowdle wrote:
Greetings,
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# yum reinstall kernel Loaded plugins: langpacks Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 Error: Nothing to do
The issue is the kernel you are running/have installed is newer than the one provided by the "yum distro-sync full" operation and updating to older kernels isn't something it was designed to do. You can get past that by manually installing the older kernel by referring to it by the complete name including version number... and then rebooting making sure to boot the older kernel. When the undesired kernel is no longer the one that is running, you can remove it... and a "yum distro-sync full" should be happy.
So, if I'm using a kernel I got from the 7-RC (the -latest) "repo", how could it have gotten out of sync?
Looking at "yum list available" to see what kernel is on the "repo", I see it's 3.10.0-123 which is the same as what's installed.
Seems like a "catch-22" wherein if you have only one kernel on the box, you can't replace it because it's the only kernel on the box. or something of that ilk.