I've got a FC2 box that I installed back in the 1.91/test2 days and I
seem to be unable to upgrade the kernel. Any attempts to either
uninstall an older kernel or upgrade to a newer one are met with the
error "memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL."
The kernel I am currently using is a self-compiled grsec 2.6.7.
I've seen a couple of posts about this on the web, but never was a solution
presented.. Does anyone have any ideas? All I really want to be able to do is
get it to skip the kernel upgrade so apt will upgrade the rest of my
packages.
root@somewhere:/var/cache/apt/archives# rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.5-1.327
kernel-2.6.5-1.358
kernel-2.6.6-1.435
kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3
root@somewhere:/var/cache/apt/archives# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.3.1-0.3
root@somewhere:/var/cache/apt/archives# rpm -ivh
kernel#2.6.8-1.521_2.6.8-1.521_i686.rpm
Preparing... memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL.
root@somewhere:/var/cache/apt/archives# rpm -e kernel-2.6.5-1.327
memory alloc (4 bytes) returned NULL.
root@somewhere:/var/cache/apt/archives# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 253744 109408 144336 0 292 10336
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Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
fscked.org evil labs
