I am having the same issue
[lazyliberal@centos ~]$ uname -mr
2.6.18-53.el5 x86_64
[lazyliberal@centos ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort
kernel-2.6.18-53.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Would you post the output of:
uname -mr
rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort
I just want to make sure you indeed do not have the latest kernel.
Akemi