Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:11 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Rcpt-To: > > wrote on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:53:21 -0500: > > > LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > > > LV Size10.53 GB > > > > > And the output of pvdisplay. > > > > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: wrote on Tue, 13 May 2008 12:53:21 -0500: > LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > > LV Size10.53 GB > > > And the output of pvdisplay. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread lannyma
On 5/12/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > > 10696956 4597688 5547128 46% / > > /dev/hda3 102486 22174 75020 23% /boo

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 18:37 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Rcpt-To: > > wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > >

RE: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-13 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 10:52 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > > > hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one > > > volume > > > group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphi

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 10696956 4597688 5547128 46% / > /dev/hda3 102486

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:52:16 -0400: > The proper location of the grub.conf is: > > /mnt/hda8/grub/grub.conf right, if that is the boot partition, there won't be a boot directory. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conac

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Kai Schaetzl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Rcpt-To: wrote on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:51:46 -0500: > > Mount it and have a look at that partition, does it contain the same stuff > > as > > your /boot partition? And this question? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://

RE: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume > > group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical > > frontend for LVM in your desktop). > > > > From your grub.conf we know

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread lannyma
On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume > group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical > frontend for LVM in your desktop). > > >From your grub.conf we know that it thinks it's installed on (hd0,2),

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-09 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 01:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > No, surely not. Windows installs only to one partition, the one you selected > for installation. The other three are only NTFS partitions and can be used by > Windows, but unless your wife installs something on them or puts data on them >

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Thu, 8 May 2008 09:39:15 -0500: > Ah. This is where the problem on her box probably comes from! Last > November, when I installed Windows XP, in English, my native language, > I did not understand something in Microsoft's English. There were four > (4) partitions for Windows (C,D,E,F) an

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-08 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: >> Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 >> boxes, where things are working properly. > > Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen that > says "booting

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:19 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: > > You will need to make a list of all partitions. Not sure what the best way > to do this would be. Probably fdisk. Run fdisk, then type "p" (for > printing the partition table), th

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:58 -0500: > Kai: I am not using Windows Boot Manager. Grub comes up, as on the 2 > boxes, where things are working properly. Just to be sure, it's really grub? You get a somewhat blueish screen that says "booting centos in x seconds, press any key to

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
mail.gmail.com> X-Rcpt-To: Mhr wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 14:04:55 -0700: > Not being familiar with 'locate,' I found its man page rather > intimidating at first glance. I'll have to study it a little more > carefully, but I should also note that I ran locate to find my kernel > rpms and was unsu

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:27 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 (offlist): Thanks - I really did mean that in a

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would always use locate for that task, much faster, much easier. > Not being familiar with 'locate,' I found its man page rather intimidating at first glance. I'll have to study it a little more carefully, but I shoul

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:38 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: > > > On > > compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, > > latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt > > grub: (a) the original ke

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:13 -0500: > On > compaq1300, I do *not* have the three boot options (original kernel, > latest kernel and Windows XP). I have two (2) options, if I interrupt > grub: (a) the original kernel (b) other, which is Windows XP Ok, that explains it. I bet yo

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mhr wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 09:53:23 -0700: > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have never found this > particular man page to be bad enough not to consult when needed, even > for the first time (like I did, lo these many eons ago, when it was > even harder to read than now) and the effort

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:30 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf > > got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname > -a show now? Kai: Yes, I rebooted, very early this morning. I just tried it again. My wife had been using

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erm. "man find" is one of the most hideous manual pages on a linux > system (man tar comes close) - so a bit help from your side would have > been nice. > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have never found thi

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 08:53:01 -0500: > -rw--- 1 root root816 May 7 05:08 grub.conf got changed 5:08 today. Are you sure you booted after that? What does uname -a show now? > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title CentOS (2.6.18-53.1.14.

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 05:27:25 -0500: > > I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that > > correct or not? > > As you removed it earlier, yes. There doesn't seem to be any dependancy > for it. AFAIK it's not necessary fo

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Simpson wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 12:15:35 +0100: > do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf? Note, this is only a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf ! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com __

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Wed, 7 May 2008 05:27:25 -0500: > I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 again. Was that > correct or not? As you removed it earlier, yes. There doesn't seem to be any dependancy for it. AFAIK it's not necessary for operation, anyway, it's only necessary if something has t

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Michael Simpson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > After rebooting the box, it is still on the original kernel, rather > than on the new kernel. > > I just installed kernel-headers-2.6.1

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread lannyma
On 5/7/08, Ralph Angenendt 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

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: > > > > > > > As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use > > > 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: > > Mark: Syntax fo

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-07 Thread Ralph Angenendt
MHR wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* > > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > > > How can I correct this, so the box > > will boot the latest kernel? TIA! L

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: > > > > As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use > > 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: > > > > rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:48 -0700, MHR wrote: > As root, go to the directory where the rpms are located (you can use > 'find' for this if you don't alreayd know) and run: > > rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 Mark: Syntax for the find comm

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread MHR
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:49 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa kernel* > kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-8.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 > > How can I correct this, so the box > will boot the latest kernel? TIA! Lanny As root, go to the dire

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread lannyma
On 5/6/08, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > > the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny > > rpm -qa ke

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Bob Taylor
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:25 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > > > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > >

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 16:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > > the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks muc

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Lanny Marcus wrote: > If there is some place I can check in a yum database or RPM database on > her box, to verify the kernel version that's really installed (probably > the original one), please let me know where that is. Thanks much! Lanny rpm -qa kernel* And: pup is a frontend to yum is a fron

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Message: 9 ?Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 >Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. >Just a

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-04 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Message: 9 >Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 16:31:50 +0200 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 >Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. >Just a

Re: Subject: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lanny Marcus wrote on Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:10 -0500: > Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 Ok. I just asked because you never mentioned you had actually checked. Just a kernel missing when you update is not proof ;-) I see that you have priority protections in place. Disable all your extra r

Subject: Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 03 May 2008, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >Message: 61 >Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 13:31:14 +0200 > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >*Have* you verified that you are not already on the latest kernel? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ uname -a Linux compaq1300.HOMELAN 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Thu Mar 15 19:57:35 EDT 200

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Kai Schaetzl
*Have* you verified that you are not already on the latest kernel? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
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 comman

Re:[CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 02 May 2008, Michael Simpson mikie.simpson at gmail.com wrote: > > __ > On 5/2/08, 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

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Bob Taylor
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:19 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > > This morning, I did "yum updat

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant 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 t

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Bob Taylor
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:56 -0400, Erek Dyskant 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. > > Ch

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Erek Dyskant
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,

Re: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Michael Simpson
On 5/2/08, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 d

[CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Lanny Marcus
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 Dimensi