>>> sender: "Dave Laird" date: "Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:41:45AM -0700" <<<EOQ > Good morning, Karanbir... > > On Monday 26 September 2005 2:28 am, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > > In a nutshell, unless you really understand the implications of > > upgrading using up2date or yum, reinstall is the best option ( or in a > > pinch, use the upgradeany install option after you remove all third > > party rpm's and packages ). > > Since I asked this question originally, and my good friend Bob Hanson more > or less told me the same thing, it is good to see the logical outcome of > trying after I was warned. 8) Let us hope that in future releases the > developers at least allow us to do upgrades, but at the present time, it > does NOT seem something one would recommend. Thank you all for advices. Too bad I didn't ask before actually going ahead with it. After all it all went beautifully in Slackware :) when doing a slapt-get --dist-upgrade from 9.1 to 10.0... I thought that I would have the same luck in CentOS... :) And in the end... I did. My problem arose from the fact that kernel* was in the up2date skip list, and thus wasn't updated. Once I got it updated too with --force, everything looks just fine. Thanks all, Alex -- May the --force be with you ;)