[apologies to seth, this accidentally went straight to you instead of the list] On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:23:03 -0500, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote: > 2. What specific error messages are you getting? Can you cut and paste > them? It makes debugging much simpler. "yum update" gets Cannot find any conf file "yum -c /etc/yum.conf update" gets Error accesing File: /etc/yum.conf "yum -c /etc/centos-yum.conf update" gets ... Downloading Packages Getting php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386.rpm php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i3 100% |=========================| 28 kB 00:00 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 025e513b Error: Could not find the GPG Key necessary to validate pkg /var/cache/yum/update/packages/php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386. rpm Error: You may want to run yum clean or remove the file: /var/cache/yum/update/packages/php-mysql-4.3.2-19.ent.i386.rpm Error: You may also check that you have the correct GPG keys installed > 3. output of ls -la /etc/yum.conf shows what? lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25 Oct 28 08:01 /etc/yum.conf -> /etc/centos-base-yum.conf > 4. why had you rebuilt your kernel before? Do you have an odd video card > that needed some special love from the kernel? Studying for RHCE, rebuilding a kernel was a suggested exercise. Here's the timeline: I install centos, rebuild the kernel, life is fine. I later run yum update, get a new vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL which, when booted, chokes on X. If I use grub to boot to the pre-update kernel all is well. On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:59:43 -0500, Rob Patrick <rob at rpatrick.com> wrote: > This is a big issue a lot of folks are having. Thanks for that; sometimes I wonder if it's just me. I'm trying hard to make the move from dilettante looser to adequate user; somedays I feel I'm doing better than others. > You can either go back to your old kernel, or move up to a newer kernel. Roger. Using old kernel works just fine. > I've seen a lot of this discussion over the past > two days on the White Box Enterpise Linux mailing lists (which are very > much like CentOS). White Box was the first rebuild I heard of. Went with Centos because the author of the RHCE prep book I'm using says he's most familiar with it and so it should be a good choice for working through his book. Turns out I'm much happier with Centos than I am with that book. :) -- Robert Thomas ("beau") Hayes Link Open your heart, pray for peace, preach healing (c)2004ISR http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/