On 05/12/2011 08:54 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 05/12/2011 08:32 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
This morning I applied the recent updates to CentOS-5.6 on a test and development host and observed this:
Updating : kmod-kvm 4/20 WARNING: Can't read module /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.32.1.el5/weak-updates/kmod-kvm/kvm.ko: No such file or directory
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Is this something I should be concerned about or can it be disregarded without consequence?
Possibly in some installs this is indeed something to worry about. The weak-updates will only work on kernels that meet all the requirements in the kmod.
This means that "kernel >= 2.6.18-203.el5" ... if you have any kernels older than that on your box, when the weak-updates run, it will fail and there are missing symbols. If you have a mix of kernels above and below the 2.6.18-203.el5, you will get this error on the older ones.
As long as you only boot kernels that are >= 2.6.18-203.el5, then it should not be a problem.
Oh, and I would point out that if you did not have at least one kernel installed that is above the 2.6.18-203.el5 version, then the package would not install at all, so in this case you likely have a mix of older and newer kernels on the box.