Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Devin Reade wrote on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:19:54 -0600: The symptoms you describe could be a side effect of being previously hit by http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2914 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447841. Thanks for the belated info, anyway. But this doesn't seem to apply

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-16 Thread Devin Reade
[I saw this thread in the mailing list archives, but wasn't subscribed at the time, so sorry it's not a proper follow-up.] The symptoms you describe could be a side effect of being previously hit by http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2914 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447841.

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 01:43 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on x86 and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf And as I already mentioned in my first posting this

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:01:43 -0400: Hmmm... Maybe the *64 systems are different? No, they are the same in this respect. I'm not seeing any difference. There is a difference between systems (no matter which arch) when the /etc/grub.conf symlink got created. On all my

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:39:27 -0400: The installonlypkgs and installonly_limit keywords. The first, according to man yum.conf, defaults to kernel, kernel-smp, kernel-bigmem, kernel-enterprise, kernel-debug, kernel-unsupported and the latter to 3. It seems to default to

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-08 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-7-2009 2:16 PM Robert spake the following: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not,

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Just updated another machine to 5.3, everything fine, but grub.conf wasn't updated to the 128 kernel. It got a new modified date and the kernel is there, but the content wasn't changed. /etc/sysconfig/kernel contains the correct

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting JohnS jse...@gmail.com: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Just updated another machine to 5.3, everything fine, but grub.conf wasn't updated to the 128 kernel. It got a new modified date and the kernel is there, but the content wasn't changed.

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread lincohn john
, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: From: JohnS jse...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:17 AM On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:35 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Just updated another machine

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see if the kernel was added there. Sorry, I was talking about /boot/grub/grub.conf. I

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Lincohn john wrote on Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:49:17 -0700 (PDT): Well, you can always manually edit the grub.conf file, right? sure, but it should work automatically. And did on all the other upgrades. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see if the kernel was

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Robert
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:16 -0500, Robert wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: snip Well, JIC, make sure yoyr /boot/grub entries look like this. ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 May 9 2008

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread William L. Maltby
snip Since *lots* of other folks have also upgraded w/NP, one makes a first assumption that something must be slightly different on your node. s/your/Kai's/ #? snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting Robert kerp...@sbcglobal.net: William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500: /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf. If for some reason it is not, correct it, or

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:44 -0500: According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on x86 and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf And as I already mentioned in my first posting this file *got* touched. The last modified date got changed, but

Re: [CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

2009-04-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:04 -0400: AFAIK, my 5.3 is completely box stock in this area, and probably 98% of others too. I have no /etc/grub*. $ ls -l /etc/grub* ls: /etc/grub*: No such file or directory I also checked my 4.6 Centos. It has the