> I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and > reinstalled yum & pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to > update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel > rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm: > > package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture > > There is my problem! uname -ipm results in i686 i686 i386. It looks like > yum is looking at uname -i.
Mine reports the same as yours and I have no problem updating kernels. > > > Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know. It's been a long > > thread. :) > > I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this? > All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this, > please? Something is missing. It's probably something very simple. I still think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it out for you. :) Ray _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos