Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

Ralph Angenendt ra+centos at br-online.de
Wed May 7 07:30:25 UTC 2008


MHR wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM,  <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  [lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ rpm -qa kernel*
> >  kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> >  kernel-2.6.18-8.el5
> >  kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
> >
> >  How can I correct this, so the box
> >  will boot the latest kernel? TIA! Lanny
> 
> As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use
> 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run:
> 
> rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5
> kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5

Ermm. The packages *are* already installed, otherwise rpm -qa wouldn't
show them.

Ralph
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