On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com wrote:

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On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote:

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This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box and mine (Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now, there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the kernel on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA!

When this happens i do a "yum clean all" then do the update again. That usually sorts it .

Mike: Thank you. I tried the 2 commands you suggested, but no joy. Results are below. Lanny

[root@compaq1300 ~]# yum clean all Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Cleaning up Everything [root@compaq1300 ~]# yum update Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 google 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 rpmforge 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00 ################################################## 17/17 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB 00:00 ################################################## 4/4 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 2.4 MB 01:56 ################################################## 6747/6747 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 834 kB 00:18 ################################################## 2400/2400 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 230 kB 00:03 ################################################## 463/463 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 104 kB 00:00 ################################################## 361/361 259 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion [root@compaq1300 ~]#