On Monday 25 February 2008, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > 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

This is a very good clue, even rpm dislikes the concept of upgrading 
(installing) your kernel. :-). Was this an error message (package was not 
installed) or a warning (package was installed), check with rpm -q kernel.

...

> > 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. :)

That was the dumbest piece of advice so far.

/Peter

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