Karanbir Singh wrote: > Robert wrote: > >> I did a yum upgrade AFTER first manually installing the new kernel. > > > 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. > you can / should use yum to do that for you. perhaps go with a 'yum > update yum' before you kick everything off with a 'yum update'. THAT is what I would definitely do different. > if you really want the kernel in and running before you do the yum > update, then do a yum update yum; yum update kernel; reboot; yum update No. I didn't want -- or have -- the new kernel running before the update. I simply wanted it to be available. I'm reasonably sure everything is gonna be O.K. Yum is one of the packages that gets reported twice: [root at mavis yum.repos.d]# rpm -q yum yum-2.2.1-1.centos4 yum-2.4.0-1.centos4 The correct version gets executed: [root at mavis yum.repos.d]# yum --version 2.4.0 ...but the list of files installed is screwy. So, it looks like my work is cut out for me: [root at mavis yum]# rpm -qa | gawk -F-[0123456789] '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq | wc -l 1433 [root at mavis yum]# rpm -qa | gawk -F-[0123456789] '{ print $1 }' | sort | wc -l 1655 I'm not overwhelmed by brilliant ideas for scripting the obvious. :-(