John Poelstra wrote:
Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 01:41 PM Pacific Time:
John Poelstra wrote:
I'm not sure you can trust the output of uname to tell you what kernel
you're running. I seem to recall it being i686 even on an i586 kernel,
if the CPU is i686. Or am I wrong?
cat /proc/version
will say SMP for i686 and .. err.. something else... (i586?) for i586
builds. And that is coming straight out of the kernel itself.
Another way:
modinfo ext3
should show i686 as part of the vermagic near the end.
I think it is a bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233370
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-March/msg00407.html
So what were the results of the tests above? Also try
rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name}-%{version}-%{arch}\n" | grep kernel
and you might find that one or more of your installed *kernels* is
i586... that was an anaconda bug in FC6. In that case yum installing
the i586 kernel-devel is understandable, not a bug.
-Andy
