Alfred von Campe schrieb: >> Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have >> scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the >> relevant mail(s). >> >> Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at the correct >> resource. > > What you want is: > > # yum instal yum-utils > > followed by: > > # package-cleanup --oldkernels [--count=x] > > where x defaults to "2" (i.e., keep two older kernels). > > Alfred I get an error: [root at turn15 ~]# package-cleanup -y --oldkernels Setting up yum Loading "installonlyn" plugin I will remove the following 2 kernel related packages: kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 /usr/bin/package-cleanup:312: DeprecationWarning: returnHeaderByTuple() will go away in a future version of Yum. hdr = my.rpmdb.returnHeaderByTuple(kernel)[0] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 402, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 371, in main removeKernels(my, opts.kernelcount, opts.confirmed, opts.keepdevel) File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 317, in removeKernels my.populateTs() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 171, in populateTs self.ts.addErase(txmbr.po.idx) AttributeError: 'YumInstalledPackage' object has no attribute 'idx' [root at turn15 ~]# rpm -qa kernel\* kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 How to deal with that? thanks, Kay