[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Bob Taylor bob8221 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 23:37:16 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It seems everybody is out of ideas why yum is not updating the kernel.
> >  The following kernels are installed in /boot:
> >
> >  vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
> >  vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5
> >
> >  I originally installed CentOS 5.0 via CD. Yum automatically updated to
> >  5.1 including kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.
> 
> The kernel that came with CentOS 5.1 was kernel-2.6.18-53.  Could you post your:
> 
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

I misspoke. Yum installed kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14 October 13, 2007
according to yum.log. So, yum appears to have worked *once* updating the
kernel. Looking in CentOS vault, I saw .15 which gives me a time frame
for what it's worth. All I did was add rpmforge. I have removed it with
no help. I will post any file related to this mystery when requested.
Time wise, I have spent at least 4 days attempting to locate this
failure. Here is the file you requested:

# CentOS-Base.repo
#
# This file uses a new mirrorlist system developed by Lance Davis for
CentOS.
# The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the
# update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and
# geographically close to the client.  You should use this for CentOS
updates
# unless you are manually picking other mirrors.
#
# If the mirrorlist= does not work for you, as a fall back you can try
the 
# remarked out baseurl= line instead.
#
#

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=
$basearch&repo
=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
priority=1
protect=1

#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=
$basearch&repo
=updates
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
priority=1
protect=1

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=
$basearch&repo
=addons
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
priority=1
protect=0
#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=
$basearch&repo
=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
priority=1
protect=0

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=
$basearch&repo
=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
priority=2
protect=0

-- 
Bob Taylor





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