FWIW: A yum upgrade on my main server (no pre-loading kernel, yum, etc), caused a hiccup. I didn't see the x86_64 release notes until too late. I did see the useradd chomping down CPU time. I ignored it as long as possible, but then the install wound up hanging the machine. Rebooted, and had to do some fancy tweaking using yum to restore the system to a stable state. Not difficult, just a minor annoyance. I am not sure if others are having issues with the 4.2 upgrade, but it might be a good idea to avoid upgrading the package (I think it was mysql) to avoid hitting that. That said, apart from a missing firewire driver, I am quite happy with Centos (and that is an upstream provider issue, addressed for the most part in centosplus). The minor pain I went through with this is nothing compared to the days of sheer abject terror I went through using other distributions "upgrade" system. Good work folks! joe Robert wrote: > 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. :-( > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615