CentOS - Feb 2008 - Yum not updating kernel

I'm having the same problem as Valent Turkovic. I have the
following /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (mind the line-wraps):

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch$basearch&repo=os
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates 
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates
#mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch$basearch&repo=updates
baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Addons
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch$basearch&repo=addons
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch$basearch&repo=extras
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages
[centosplus]
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch$basearch&repo=centosplus
#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

I have missed any fixes for this since the suggestion to comment the
mirrorlist line and uncomment the baseurl line (which doesn't work.

Thanks in advance.

--
Bob Taylor

On Feb 18, 2008 9:52 AM, Bob Taylor <bob8221 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm having the same problem as Valent Turkovic. I have the
> following /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo (mind the line-wraps):
Would you post the output of:

uname -mr

rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort

I just want to make sure you indeed do not have the latest kernel.

Akemi

Hm. I just noticed http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/i386/RPMS/
kernel listings are i686.rpm. Could my problem be this is confusing yum
as I use i386 and this is the i386 directory? Doesn't make sense since
no one else seems to have this. Of course their are most likely few
running Pentium II's. Searching for answers in the dark.

Shouldn't yum update kernel work update just the kernel* rpms?
-- 
Bob Taylor

It seems everybody is out of ideas why yum is not updating the kernel.
The following kernels are installed in /boot:

vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5
vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5

I originally installed CentOS 5.0 via CD. Yum automatically updated to
5.1 including kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.

I have traced the kernels from kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 to
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5. Yum stopped updating at this point.
kernel-2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 was installed Oct 10, 2007 according to
yum.log. It seems I installed rpmforge.repo around October 13, 2007. The
installation included two files. rpmforge.repo and mirrors-rpmforge. The
contents of rpmforge.repo is:

# Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 5 - dag
# URL: http://rpmforge.net/
[rpmforge]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag
#baseurl = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag
mirrorlist = http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/mirrors-rpmforge
#mirrorlist = file:///etc/yum.repos.d/mirrors-rpmforge
enabled = 1
priority = 99
protect = 0
gpgkey = file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
gpgcheck = 1

Other than the priority is not needed, does any of the previous ring a
bell? Still frustrated.

I received the following this morning:

/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:

Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 505: DNS lookup error
Could not retrieve mirrorlist
http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=i386&repo=os error was
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 506: Failure To Connect To Web Server

Has CentOS.org changed their url?

-- 
Bob Taylor

I'll lookand see, doesn't hurt.

Which repos did you have installed?

-Ross


----- Original Message -----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org <centos-bounces at centos.org>
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
Sent: Thu Feb 28 02:32:20 2008
Subject: RE: [CentOS] Yum not updating kernel

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 15:27 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

[big snip]
> I'd be interested in seeing a complete /var/log/yum.log file
> and the date of the last successful yum update.
I have attached both yum.log files. Possible dates of interest are:

Oct 10 09:14:15 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5

Oct 24 05:43:29 Updated: kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5
Dec 03 11:10:12 Updated: kernel-headers.i386 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5

I wonder if you can find a culprit?

-- 
Bob Taylor


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Thought I should start a new thread since the subject has changed.

It seems I have lost some email. I logged out Tuesday night and couldn't
log back in. I had some unexpected problems reinstalling and also some
commitments. Finally back! Whew! I *hate* reinstalls!

Anaconda is not the problem in modifying /etc/rpm/platform
As I install packages I will check the platform file.
-- 
Bob Taylor