On 07/04/2013 05:54 PM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-07-04, Chris Taylor <Chris.Taylor at corp.eastlink.ca> wrote: >> I am running a server with CentOS release 6.4 (Final) and the kernel version of 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 and everything looks ok, but when I do a yum update on the kernel to update it to a newer version "2.6.32-358.11.1.el6". > > As Lubomir pointed out yesterday, the latest kernel is vulnerable to a > DoS attack, so you should probably use a different one. See Johnny's > message for details, and an untested kernel that you could use instead: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2013-July/135671.html > >> It will not restart after the required reboot. It will start to load until the task bar at the bottom gets to the end than it stops loading I have been patient with it unless it requires more time to start but after 10min it was still just sitting at the task bar. > > You can either try ctrl-d or ESC during the splash screen process (I > don't remember exactly which one), or you can edit the grub command line > when it runs on boot and remove the "rhgb" and "quiet" options from the > kernel options. > > --keith > There are always 3 kernels available for boot. Only one gets updated. So first check if other two you have are booting properly. Then you can list all available kernels with "yum list kernel --showduplicate" and select one and install it like "yum install kernel-2.6.32-358.6.2.el6.centos.plus" and see if this one works. If it does, you can use it. A thing to check is if you need to recompile VM drivers for new kernels. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant