On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:22 +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Lets get this fixed so we can kill this thread.
Good initiative, but since the layer beneath also fails (rpm) maybe we should start there. rpm -qi kernel or maybe bad stuff in /etc/sysconfig kernel.
Where I am confused is the original kernel and ONE update is in the /var/log/yum.log then nada.
I seem to recall a discussion many months ago regarding an i686 kernel being installed from an i386 directory. If you look at http://isodirect.centos.org/centos/5/updates you will not see an i686 directory, just i386 and ia-64. All rpms in the i386 directory are i386 except the kernels and very few others.
/etc/sysconfig/kernel: # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
The interesting error from RPM suggests that it thinks the machine is an i586 (or atleast not i686).
uname -imp:
i686 i686 i386
Don't know why the kernel says it's an i386. Kernel bug? Gateway purchase?