[CentOS] Yum loses memory when kernel is upgraded
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov
Wed Nov 5 13:09:59 UTC 2008
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Jim Perrin (jperrin at gmail.com) kirjoitteli (4.11.2008 15:23):
>> You (and your /etc/redhat-release) say 5.2, but your kernel says 5.1
>> (5.2 shipped with 2.6.18-92)
>
> Hm, ok.
>
> "yum update kernel" did not see anything to update (that's just because the
> present problem: kernel was not listed in the rpm dbs). So I did "yum list
> kernel" and based on that, "yum install kernel.i686".
>
> This time the kernel update did not erase the rpm db's (or whatever
> happened, on two kernel updates before this).
>
> So it seems that my system is now cured, at least for now... Don't know why.
> :-)
Sounds like your RPM database was corrupted. If so, there may well be
other problems lurking. I'd try:
rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
yum update
Should not hurt, and may well help avoid other problems.
Phil
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