From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Description of problem: Currently running kernel is 2.4.20-18.7, also have 2.4.20-13.7 installed. I used the command "up2date -u -f kernel" to get the new kernel. I am used to doing this and having the new kernel installed, but the running kernel is preserved. After up2date grabbed the new kernel, I deleted the previous kernel (rpm -e kernel-2.4.20-13.7). After these two commands completed, I was left with only the most recent kernel, the running kernel had been deleted --Larry Following are the details: [root@zeus root]# uname -a Linux zeus.fahnoetech.com 2.4.20-18.7 #1 Thu May 29 08:32:50 EDT 2003 i686 unknown [root@zeus root]# rpm -qa|grep kernel kernel-2.4.20-18.7 kernel-utils-2.4-7.4 kernel-2.4.20-13.7 [root@zeus root]# up2date -l Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching rpm headers... Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration: Name Version Rel Reason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kernel 2.4.20 19.7 Pkg name/pattern None of the packages you requested were found, or they are already updated. [root@zeus root]# up2date -u -f kernel Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-i386-7.3... ######################################## Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies... ######################################## kernel-2.4.20-19.7.i686.rpm ########################## Done. Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Installing... 1:kernel ########################################### [100%] [root@zeus root]# [root@zeus root]# rpm -qa|grep kernel kernel-2.4.20-18.7 kernel-2.4.20-19.7 kernel-utils-2.4-7.4 kernel-2.4.20-13.7 [root@zeus root]# rpm -e kernel-2.4.20-13 [root@zeus root]# cd /boot [root@zeus boot]# ls -l total 4801 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44753 Jul 15 12:56 config-2.4.20-19.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 257708 Jul 21 13:15 initrd-2.4.20-19.7.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 473 Jul 21 13:15 kernel.h lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Jul 21 13:15 module-info -> module-info-2.4.20-19.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15438 Jul 15 12:56 module-info-2.4.20-19.7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jul 21 13:15 System.map -> System.map-2.4.20-19.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 505471 Jul 15 12:56 System.map-2.4.20-19.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2989435 Jul 15 12:56 vmlinux-2.4.20-19.7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 21 13:15 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1073440 Jul 15 12:56 vmlinuz-2.4.20-19.7 [root@zeus boot]# ls -l /lib/modules/ total 2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jun 3 08:50 2.4.20-18.7 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jul 21 13:15 2.4.20-19.7 [root@zeus boot]# rpm -qa|grep kernel kernel-2.4.20-18.7 kernel-2.4.20-19.7 kernel-utils-2.4-7.4 [root@zeus boot]# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md3 505508 103155 376254 22% / /dev/md1 8681064 366056 7874032 5% /home /dev/md2 19568284 839608 17734660 5% /usr /dev/md0 4126976 302976 3614360 8% /var [root@zeus boot]# grep kernel /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date removeSkipList=kernel*; pkgSkipList=kernel*; Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.8.39-1.7.3 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. up2date -u -f kernel 2. up2date -e kernel-2.4.20-13 3. Actual Results: I have only 2.4.20-19 Expected Results: I should have had 2.4.20-18 and 2.4.20-19 installed Additional info:
It seems there are eggs in my beard: Somehow (why I do not yet know) /boot was not mounted at the time I did the up2date of the kernel, thus the new kernel was installed in the /boot directory rather than the /boot filesystem. --Larry