[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

On Feb 18, 2008 2:40 PM, Ed Donahue <liberaled at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having the same issue
>
> [lazyliberal at centos ~]$ uname -mr
> 2.6.18-53.el5 x86_64
>
> [lazyliberal at centos ~]$ rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort
> kernel-2.6.18-53.el5
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
> kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
>  kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5

First make sure you do not have any line like:

exclude=kernel      -OR-
exclude=kernel*

in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Then try updating the kernel by:

yum -d5 update kernel

Does the output show any hint?

Akemi