[CentOS] Re: Can't update kernel, says not enough space

[Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guillermo Garron spake the following on 8/28/2006 11:47 AM:
>> >
>> > Lazy? ;-)) When he first posted it, I did a "man ...". The answer is
>> > there!
>> >
>> But you have to install it before you have the man entry. And it
>> leaves info
>> for others. And yes, maybe a little bit lazy... O:-)
>>
>> And now that I tried it, it didn't remove the smp kernels, so I had to
>> do it
>> manually. And I don't see anything in the man page about that.
> Bazooka Joe <fastfish@xxxxxxxxx> from the
> Fedora forum wrote this a
> few days ago.
> <start qoutation>
> 1) "uname -r" to tell you what kernel you are running.
> 
> 2) "rpm -qa | grep kernel"
> 
> 3) "rpm -e" all the kernel-XXX and kernel-devel-XXX kernels you want to
> delete.
> I recommend keeping your last two kernels.
> 
> 4) In addition, you might want to do the following:
> 
> rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep kernel | grep -v smp`
> 
> That will remove all kernel and kernel-devel stuff that is not smp.
> ____ <end of qoutation>
> regards,
> 
> Guillermo.
That is basically what I did to clean it up. A few of the machines were
freshly installed a few weeks ago, so they had several kernels on them. I just
got too busy to clean up. I just wonder if there is a flaw in the
package-cleanup script. If I was any good at python, I would think it is just
missing the smp kernels.

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