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..... > 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 -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq