On Monday 25 February 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and > > reinstalled yum & pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to > > update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel > > rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm: > > > > package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture This is a very good clue, even rpm dislikes the concept of upgrading (installing) your kernel. :-). Was this an error message (package was not installed) or a warning (package was installed), check with rpm -q kernel. ... > > I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this? > > All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this, > > please? > > Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still > think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it > out for you. :) That was the dumbest piece of advice so far. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080225/68ac4658/attachment-0004.sig>