On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl <maillists AT conactive.com> wrote: >Message: 9 ?Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 >Message-ID: <VA.000031c9.0166573a at news.conactive.com> >Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 >Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. >Just a kernel missing when you update is not proof ;-) >I see that you have priority protections in place. Disable all your >extra repos, then disable the protections (basically go back to your >inital repo setup) and then do a check-update. You are using the >mirrorlist and not a specific CentOS mirror, do you? Kai: This is a follow on to my prior reply to this. I removed the plugins=1 line in /etc/yum.conf and I removed 6 repositories. Then, I did "yum clean all" and got "Cleaning up Everything". Then, I did "yum update" and got, "No packages marked for update/obsoletion". Then, "yum update kernel" and got "No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion". Then the yum.conf file type is shown as Cisco VPN Settings, so I couldn't open/view it with a text editor. The last thing I did was to copy these files on my box and replace the files on my wife's box with my files: (a) etc/yum/folder (b) etc/yum.repos.d (c) /etc/yum.conf file Same problem. It is as if there is a YUM or RPM database, somewhere, that believes the Kernel has been updated, and it has not been updated? I find it very hard to believe that the Kernel was in fact updated, but that it is still shown as the original Kernel that was on the CentOS5 Install DVD. So, this continues to be a an unsolved mystery, but not like the ReiserFS guy. :-) >BTW: I notice that your mail is missing any threading information, so >that it doesn't thread at all. I see that other people who use Gmail do >get the threading information, so there's probably some option not >activated in your Gmail account. I changed the setting for my subscription to the CentOS Mailing list, from the Daily Digest to Individual messages. This reply is to your message that was in the Digest I received Sunday morning. In the future, I will be replying to individual messages (using Gmail on the web or with Evolution), so, hopefully, the threading will be better, if not perfect. Gmail doesn't use Folders, they use Labels, and I don't have that working on the web yet, but I can move the CentOS messages into the CentOS Label in Evolution and because it's IMAP, they get moved into the CentOS Label on the web too. Something else for me to check out, but that's on the Gmail web site somewhere and will be much easier to cure than this mystery about the kernel update on one box. All of your ideas about the problem updating the Kernel in my wife's box are very much appreciated! I believe now that when I updated the Kernel (and 2 other packages) on my box and on my daughter's box, it was with PUP and then later, I did a "yum update" to update everything else on those boxes. If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny