At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:20:23 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:31:02 -0800 CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org wrote:
I get this error:
No Packages marked for removal
(Was anything else displayed, like maybe dependency issues?)
rm /boot/*2.6.9-42* /boot/*2.6.9-55*
will also work (but check in /boot/grub/grub.conf!). Maybe somehow
not sure that's a good idea...
It might make sense *as a last resort*, partitularly if something odd happened -- I mentioned several: rpm -e might have failed somehow, a fresh reinstall without reformatting /boot, a backup/restore, etc. All of these could result in the kernels *appearing* to be 'installed', but not 'visible' to rpm/yum. In which case rpm/yum won't remove them.
the OP just has tons of installed kernels, he has to uninstall the superfluous packages - using rpm, not rm.
YES, of course, unless rpm 'believes' that the kernels are NOT installed (not in rpm's database for some reason).
rpm -q kernel will list all installed kernels then keep the 2 or 3 most recent (including the currently running one, this is a safety in case you can't boot the newer kernels)
meaning, for each kernel except the ones you want to keep, do an rpm -e or yum remove.
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