On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:31 -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > Andy Green said the following on 03/21/2007 02:57 PM Pacific Time: > > 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. I'm wondering why we still have this "bug" since the initial release of FC6? It's a fine "Howdy Do" for a new user to find themselves experiencing a rather large install error that is many months old. Cannot this be fixed and installed to the re-spin?? I mean, Damn. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
