On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 17:40 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 05:06:30PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > After updating a very old x86_64 3.x install to 3.8 it still > > has kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL. Then if I repeat the > > yum update command, it offers to install kernel 2.4.21-47.EL.ia32e. > > > > Neither of these situations seems quite right. > > What is your cpu? (/proc/cpuinfo) > What does rpm think is your architecture? > (rpm --showrc| head) ---- cpuinfo -- The machines are ibm eserver 336's with 64-bit xeon's: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz physical id : 0 siblings : 1 runqueue : 0 stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 2800.251 cache size : 0 KB fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm ferr syscall lm sse3 monitor ds-cpl gv3 cnxt-id bogomips : 5583.66 clflush size : 64 address sizes : 0 bits physical, 0 bits virtual power management: (cpu 1 is the same) ----- Rpm says: ARCHITECTURE AND OS: build arch : x86_64 compatible build archs: ia32e x86_64 noarch build os : Linux compatible build os's : linux install arch : ia32e install os : Linux compatible archs : ia32e x86_64 athlon noarch amd64 i686 i586 i486 i386 compatible os's : linux ----- > If you think it's a bug, please fill a report at http://bugs.centos.org I think having ia32e in there is a bug, but I'm not sure where it belongs. It may be left from some old version of the installer. What current x86_64 kernel should be installed and do you have any suggestions on how to fix things? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com