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