On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 01:20 -0400, JohnS wrote: > I am just wondering if any of you guys with the udev hang problem have > tried: > rpm -e the new kernel? Then try to reinstall it via yum install. You > should delete the new kernel from /var/cache/yum first. > > Just a point in why I say that is I have seen several machines that have > yummed corrupt packages and bad repo metadata. After pegging yum to > pull from a distinct mirror the problem has gone away. > > John How about this: I downloaded the new kernel rpm again manually then used rpm2cpio to load the files into a work directory then ran this script: $ rpm -qlp ../kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.x86_64.rpm | while read rl do rstr=$(cmp $rl .$rl 2>&1) rc=$? if (( rc != 0 )); then echo $rstr | grep -v "Is a directory" > /dev/null rc=$? if (( rc == 0 )); then echo "Error: $rstr" fi fi done Error: cmp: ./boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img: No such file or directory Error: cmp: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/build: No such file or directory Error: cmp: ./lib/modules/2.6.18-194.3.1.el5/source: No such file or directory