On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
alan wrote:
If you have a known good kernel installed, change grub to use it as the
default and then reboot.
There's only one kernel installed right now, 2944. And it's causing the
lockups [*] So I need to get 2933 back on the machine.
You only need to have one copy of kernel-headers installed. You may have to
remove the new one and then install the old one.
I can't remove it without glibc-headers complaining.
Hence my question of whether I should just force the installation of 2933,
ignore the errors, adjust grub, reboot with 2933, then remove 2944.
You can just leave the updated kernel-headers. I have kernels back to
2.6.20-1.2925.2.5.fc6.netdev.7 (not a stock kernel), including the stock
2.6.20-1.2933.fc6, and only one kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6. kernel
RPMs don't even depend on kernel-headers anyway.
$ rpm -q --requires kernel-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
fileutils
module-init-tools
initscripts >= 8.11.1-1
mkinitrd >= 5.1.19.0.2-1
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
[mjs@vincent52 str-plan]$ rpm -q --whatrequires kernel-headers
glibc-headers-2.5-10.fc6
glibc-headers-2.5-10.fc6
[mjs@vincent52 str-plan]$ rpm -q glibc-headers
glibc-headers-2.5-10.fc6
[mjs@vincent52 str-plan]$ rpm -q --requires glibc-headers
/bin/sh
glibc = 2.5-10.fc6
kernel-headers
kernel-headers >= 2.2.1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
[*] Side note: how can I capture the OOPS that I get when the system locks
up?
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
