[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Wed Feb 20 10:22:24 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:27 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>  > On Feb 19, 2008 1:58 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Please look at the file "/var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt" and see the
>  > > first server from that list.  If it is not a belnet.be mirror, please
>  > > tell me which one it is, as it may be out of date.
>  >
>  > According to Bob's earlier post, he does not seem to have the
>  > fastestmirror plugin.  So he probably does not have that file...
>  >
>  > Bob, do a 'yum install yum-fastestmirror' and try again.
>
>  Did so. No help. FYI no timedhosts.txt in the rpm. I still think the
>  problem lies in yum's message "Could not find update match for kernel".

timedhosts.txt is NOT in the rpm.  It is created when you run yum and
contains the names of the mirror sites yum tried to access.  Johnny
wanted to know which site yum attempted to use.  If you do not see
this file even after yum was run, then something is amiss there.

Akemi