From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) I upgraded to the new kernel using up2date. After the upgrade the machine didn't boot due to lilo pointing to the old boot image. This old image is inexistent because the upgrade deletes it, is this necessary? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. upgrade to the new kernel using up2date and try to boot the machine afterwards. 2. 3. Actual Results: the machine hungs Expected Results: the machine should boot the new kernel
automatic kernel updates are currently not supported with up2date. The kernel packages are specifically excluded for automatic updating with up2date. There is currently work going to add supports for automatically installing kernel packages. But for the time being, the kernel packaeges should be installed manually.
Assigned QA to jturner
For this release, kernel upgrades with up2date are not supported. That is why kernel is in the excludes list. This _may_ be supported in the next release, but it may not. The engineering behind it to make sure nothing fails is non-trivial.