Thanks! Up on kernel 3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.centos. Page http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel specifically states using rpm and not yum for the new kernel install, so perhaps needs that slight revision for 7......Nick G On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all - > First the boilerplate: > On centos-release.x86_64 7-0.1406.el7.centos.2.3 > [root at localhost x86_64]# uname -a > Linux localhost.localdomain 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 30 > 12:09:22 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [root at localhost x86_64]# rpm -qa kernel\* | sort > kernel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > kernel-devel-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > kernel-headers-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > kernel-tools-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > > I built kernel-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7, successfully to appearances. But on > installing the new rpms I receive a couple dozen messages like these: > [root at localhost x86_64]# rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm > Preparing... ################################# > [100%] > file /usr/lib64/libcpupower.so.0.0.0 from install of > kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.centos.local.x86_64 conflicts with > file from package kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > file /usr/bin/cpupower from install of > kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.7.2.el7.centos.local.x86_64 conflicts with file > from package kernel-tools-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 > > Have I missed a step? Maybe something specific to 7 or different from 6? > Thanks.....Nick >