Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hi Robert,
Robert wrote:
why did you manually need to install the kernel ?
Because a "yum update kernel" offered to install the -SMP kernel. This is, no doubt, an artifact of anaconda & associates deciding at the time CentOS4 was first installed that an SMP kernel was appropriate for an Athlon XP in an ASUS A7NX8 ver.2 deluxe m/b, compounded by my packrat reluctance to throw it away at the outset.
if you remove the kernel-smp ( which, based on your statement - you dont seem to be using) yum should not update it :) technically, only packages already installed are updated ( or pkgs that satisfy depends for other pkgs ).
Anyway, if anaconda left behind a smp kenel on UP machine, sounds like a bugreport to me.....
Not only leaves it behind but configures GRUB to make SMP the default. Drives NTP nuts! I should be shot for not removing it when I first installed CentOS4. It'll be gone when the smoke clears from my upcoming exercise.
I'm reasonably sure everything is gonna be O.K. Yum is one of the packages that gets reported twice:
sounds like you are going to have a fun filled Monday morning. I forsee rpm and coffee in your immediate future. Be a good idea to backup the rpmdb somewhere. Just in case.
remove everything apart from the Packages file from /var/lib/rpm - then rebuild the db ( rpm -v --rebuilddb ). then try work with the -V option to verify what you have what rpm thinks you have.
- K
Thanks for the advice. My Monday and Tuesday have already been scheduled for other joyous tasks, so I'll attack this fiasco Wednesday. (Now that I'm retired, I wonder almost daily how the hell I ever had time to work!) At any rate, I've already burned /var/lib/rpm to a CD and I'll have a brand new full backup by about 3:00 AM Wednesday.