On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Jussi Hirvi greenspot@greenspot.fi wrote:
Centos 5.x
Why could this be? After I loaded a xen kernel (by mistake), yum seemed to lose its knowledge of my CentOS version. I had that fixed by "yum install centos-release" (I had first to fix the repo addresses for this to succeed).
But after that, I noticed that yum did not remember anymore, what packages were already installed. It seems that the something happens to the rpm databases. I think this is connected to kernel upgrades - that is, every time I update the kernel, the rpm databases are spoiled... (or something).
Right now both of these commands: yum list installed rpm --query -a
Never seen this sort of 'forgetfulness'. Could you provide a bit more detail as to which version of centos5 you're running, and the full output of 'rpm -V yum centos-release' and the outpuf of 'uname -a'