On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:20, Olaf Olson wrote: > Garrick, > > Thanks for your assistance. > > I should have told you all of the story, before asking for advice, > however, instead of trying to avoid the embarrassment of what I have done. > > I had a power surge, which knocked out portions of my installation > (Yellow Dog Linux, 3.0.1, on a PPC, G3 B&W). I managed to recover a > great deal of my installation, but, improper backups resulted in only a > partial restore. I had used yum to upgrade the kernel from 2.4.22-2a to > 2.4.22-2g. Unfortunately, my restore brought back the 2a image. I can't > use yum to reinstall the 2g kernel, because yum still believes I have > it. In reality, of course, the kernel isn't there and still needs all of > the simple attention and automatic configuration that yum so easily > provides. > > So... what I am really looking for, I guess, is a way to whack yum on > the head so that it gets partial amnesia and forgets that I ever managed > to update the kernel. Is there a way to do that?? > So you're not running the 2.4.22-2g kernel but the rpmdb thinks it has it. okay rpm -e kernel-2.4.22-2g and then yum update kernel -sv
