Re: Yum not updating kernel

[Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and
> reinstalled yum & pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to
> update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel
> rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm:
> 
> package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture
> 
> There is my problem! uname -ipm results in i686 i686 i386. It looks like
> yum is looking at uname -i.

Mine reports the same as yours and I have no problem updating kernels.

> 
> > Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know.  It's been a long
> > thread. :)
> 
> I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this?
> All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this,
> please?

Something is missing.  It's probably something very simple.  I still
think you should let someone log in as root into your box and figure it
out for you. :)

Ray
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