Any help would be appreciated:
I have not been able to install new kernels. When I run yum update, all
new packages from the various repositories install successfully, except
yum has been stalling on the installation of updated kernels.
For example, I recently ran 'yum update' but it stalled while installing
kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5. After a while I gave up and hit Crl-C
shutting yum down.
I then downloaded the rpm and attempted to install it to the same effect
- it stalled at some point during the installation process. I hit
Ctrl-C and got the following mesage:
error: %post(kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686) scriptlet failed, signal 2
Now, the computer can't decided whether that kernel is installed or not
- see below:
[barry@localhost Desktop]$ sudo rpm -ivh
kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
package kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5 is already installed
[barry@localhost Desktop]$ sudo rpm -e kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm
error: package kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5.i686.rpm is not installed
Here's rpm -q kernel-smp:
kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5
kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2122_FC5
and grub.conf looks like this (no 2122 kernel!):
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Memtest86 v3.2
kernel /memtest86-3.2
title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2111_FC5smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5smp.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp.img
Not sure if this information is relevant, but here's lspci (the machine
is a relatively dated Dell Precision dual Pentium III/1000 GH)
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge
(non-transparent mode) (rev 15)
00:0e.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus
Controller (rev 01)
00:10.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. Adaptec AAR-1210SA SATA
HostRAID Controller (rev 02)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
00:13.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152 (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti
4200 AGP 8x] (rev a1)
02:08.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:08.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41)
02:08.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)
02:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
03:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
03:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port
(rev 04)03:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire
Port (rev 04)
03:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W / 7890/7891
Thanks,
Barry
