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 ~]#