On Jan 20, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
> Hold on a sec. What is "-i586" doing there?
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6/build should be a symlink to:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Jan 19 19:58 build -> ../../../usr/src/
> kernels/2.6.19-1.2895.fc6-i686
>
> I suspect that you have somehow installed the i586 kernel rpm.
>
> Do:
>
> rpm -q --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel
>
> and see what happens.
>
> If this is what your deal is, what you need to do is:
>
> 1) Reboot and manually boot the original 2.6.18 kernel, via grub
>
> 2) Manually: rpm -e kernel-2.6.19
>
> 3) Then rpm -i the i686 kernel.
>
> Then try again.
>
> There are other ways to fix this, but this is the safest procedure
> for the faint-of-heart.
>
> I'm presuming that you should really be running the i686 kernel.
> There's not a lot of hardware these days that must still run the
> i586 kernel. If it's the other way around, you're boned, because
> Fedora only released the i686 kernel-devel errata. Somebody should
> bugzilla this, but nobody cares because nobody really needs the 586
> kernel.
>
Thanks Sam. That is the problem. It happened during the upgrade to
FC6 from FC5. I should file a bug report with Fedora. And yes, I am
running a PIII so I would like i686.
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