CentOS - May 2008 - "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not
update the
kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates
are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past
couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box and mine
(Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now,
there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP
option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the kernel
on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA!

On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not
update the
> kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates
> are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past
> couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box and
mine
> (Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now,
> there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP
> option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the kernel
> on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA!
>
Hi there

When this happens i do a "yum clean all" then do the update again.

That usually sorts it .

mike

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It did not
update the
> kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates
> are available. 
Check /etc/yum.conf and see if there's an exclude=kernel line

Regards,
Erek Dyskant

On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com
wrote:
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus <lannyma at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It
did not update the
> > kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no
updates
> > are available. Her box is a Compaq Evo D300v Celeron. During the past
> > couple of days, when I did "yum update", on my daughters box
and mine
> > (Dell Dimensions), the kernel was updated and in the GRUB menus now,
> > there are two (2) Linux kernels to choose from, as well as the Win XP
> > option, since these are all dual boot boxes. How can I update the
kernel
> > on the Compaq Evo so it has an up to date kernel? TIA!
> 
> When this happens i do a "yum clean all" then do the update
again.
> That usually sorts it .
Mike: Thank you. I tried the 2 commands you suggested, but no joy.
Results are below. Lanny



[root at compaq1300 ~]# yum clean all
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
[root at compaq1300 ~]# yum update
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
adobe-linux-i386          100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00     
google                    100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00     
rpmforge                  100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00     
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00     
updates                   100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00     
addons                    100% |=========================|  951 B
00:00     
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
00:00     
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  10 kB
00:00     
################################################## 17/17
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.6 kB
00:00     
################################################## 4/4
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.4 MB
01:56     
################################################## 6747/6747
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 834 kB
00:18     
################################################## 2400/2400
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 230 kB
00:03     
################################################## 463/463
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  157 B
00:00     
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 104 kB
00:00     
################################################## 361/361
259 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
[root at compaq1300 ~]#

On 02 May 2008, Erek Dyskant erek at blumenthals.com
wrote:
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> > This morning, I did "yum update" on my wife's box. It
did not update the
> > kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no
updates
> > are available. 
> 
> Check /etc/yum.conf and see if there's an exclude=kernel line
Erek: Thank you. I looked at the /etc/yum.conf file. There is no line
that says exclude=kernel   Lanny

On 5/7/08, Ralph Angenendt <ra+cento AT br-online.de>
wrote:
> Lanny Marcus wrote:
> > Scott: Great! If I can locate kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 and
> > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I can use the rpm -e command to remove them
> > and then yum update again and that should update the kernel in her
box.
> > How do I locate them?
>
> Why locate them? rpm -e takes the package *name*, not the package
> itself.
Yes. I woke up about 430 this morning and I realized that rpm can
locate the file by itself.   :-)    However, I want to learn how to
use find that Mark (mhr) mentioned!

[lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at compaq1300 ~]# rpm -e kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
[root at compaq1300 ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
[root at compaq1300 ~]# yum update
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
263 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for kernel to pack into transaction set.
kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 100% |=========================| 258 kB    00:03
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 set to be installed
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
============================================================================Installing:
 kernel                  i686       2.6.18-53.1.14.el5  updates            13 M

Transaction Summary
============================================================================Install
1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 13 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): kernel-2.6.18-53.1 100% |=========================|  13 MB    03:36
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: kernel                       ######################### [1/1]

Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
Complete!
[root at compaq1300 ~]# exit

Notice that:  I was able to remove both files, with rpm -e without any
problem and I was able to run yum update, and it installed the new
kernel, but not the kernel-header file.

[lanny at compaq1300 ~]$ uname -a
Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT
2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[lanny at compaq1300 ~]$

After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather
than on the new kernel.

I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that
correct or not?

Probably very close to solving this now! Thanks much to everyone who
has contributed ideas! Lanny