CORRECTION - please see below.... On Jan 23, 2008 9:54 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > On top of my previously (just now) difficulties with yum, now I find that the 53.1.6 kernel is not installing properly. > > When I run "yum update" to install it, the install hangs here: > > Dependencies Resolved > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Installing: > kernel x86_64 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 updates 15 M > > Transaction Summary > ============================================================================= > Install 1 Package(s) > Update 0 Package(s) > Remove 0 Package(s) > > Total download size: 15 M > Is this ok [y/N]: y > Downloading Packages: > (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-53.1 100% |=========================| 15 MB 03:26 > Running Transaction Test > Finished Transaction Test > Transaction Test Succeeded > Running Transaction > Installing: kernel ######################### [1/1] > > If I kill this with ^C, it thinks it has installed the kernel, but the kernel is not in my grub.conf. Rpm also thinks it is installed. > > I can remove it with rpm -e, but then rpm -ivh won't install it either. It also hangs, at the same point. > > Here's what I see when I type ^C: > > error: %post( kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, signal 2 > > (Yes, I know, signal 2 is SIGINT, which is what ^C does.) > > BUT rpm thinks it has installed the kernel even though the /boot partition has not been updated and the grub.conf file also does not show it. > CORRECTION: /boot was updated, just not the grub.conf.... > Any constructive assistance would be appreciated. > > mhr > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080123/cb520116/attachment-0004.html>