[CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

Tue Feb 26 05:43:31 UTC 2008
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

Garrick Staples wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:25:32AM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged:
> > Bob Taylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 23:44 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> > > > The contents of,
> > > > 
> > > > # cat /etc/rpm/platform
> > > 
> > > i386-redhat-linux
> > 
> > Good
> 
> Isn't that the problem?  All of my machines say i686, athlon, 
> ia32e, x86_64,
> etc.  None of them say i386.

Ooops, I saw i686 when I looked the first time, yes, this should
be i686-redhat-linux. Good catch.

Bob, can you try manually changing this to say i686-redhat-linux,
I believe this is auto-generated at boot so it isn't a permanent
fix, but lets see if it updates after this by booting into the
older kernel (may need to manually change this file again),
removing the newer kernel and then try a 'yum update'.

-Ross

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