[CentOS] Problems after performing yum update

Sat Aug 26 01:40:57 UTC 2006
Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>

I performed the update yesterday that included installing kernel 
2.6.9-42.0.2.EL and replacing ethereal with wireshark.
First, the trivial...
Wireshark would not run from the KDE menu without editing the menu to 
change the command from "wireshark" to "kdesu wireshark" because dumpcap 
is at usr/sbin/dumpcap instead of /usr/bin/dumpcap . Making the change 
causes wireshark to open root password dialog like ethereal, which it 
replaced. (And which makes sense.)

Now, the puzzling.  This is an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ on an ASUS A7N8X 
deluxe ver 2.0 m/b.  The symptom is that ntpd refuses to sync.  Dropping 
back to kernel 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL restores ntpd to proper operation.  My 
first thought was that the smp code must have been incorporated in the 
non-smp kernel because the system mis-behaves exactly as it has in the 
past when Anaconda mistakenly installed the smp kernel.  What clouds the 
picture is that when I checked the updates repository, I found both 
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686.rpm  
and 
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686.rpm 
which then made me wonder if there was a glitch in the build process.

Has anyone else seen this?