[CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box
Lanny Marcus
lannyma at gmail.com
Sat May 3 09:48:44 UTC 2008
On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com wrote:
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not update the
> > kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates
> > are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past
> > couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box and mine
> > (Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now,
> > there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP
> > option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the kernel
> > on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA!
>
> When this happens i do a "yum clean all" then do the update again.
> That usually sorts it .
Mike: Thank you. I tried the 2 commands you suggested, but no joy.
Results are below. Lanny
[root at compaq1300 ~]# yum clean all
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
[root at compaq1300 ~]# yum update
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
adobe-linux-i386 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
google 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
rpmforge 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B
00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 10 kB
00:00
################################################## 17/17
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 2.6 kB
00:00
################################################## 4/4
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 2.4 MB
01:56
################################################## 6747/6747
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 834 kB
00:18
################################################## 2400/2400
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 230 kB
00:03
################################################## 463/463
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 157 B
00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 104 kB
00:00
################################################## 361/361
259 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root at compaq1300 ~]#
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