Bob Taylor wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:25 -0700, Shad L. Lords wrote: >>> 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. >> What does the following command produce on your system? >> >> yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' > > > yum --noplugins --disable '*' --enable updates list 'kernel*' > Setting up repositories > updates 100% |=========================| 951 B > 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Installed Packages > kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 > installed > kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.el5 > installed > kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.cen > installed > Available Packages > kernel-doc.noarch 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 > updates > kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 > updates based on this output ... somehow your kernel is excluded in update set, even though it sees kernel-doc.noarch and kernel-headers.i386. This leads me to believe that there is a "exclude=kernel" somewhere in a config file: please check /etc/yum.conf again -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080223/b7ef3633/attachment-0005.sig>