Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-24 Thread Anthony K
On 25/1/20 11:56 am, Anthony K wrote: [0]: https://anindya.me/2011/09/17/grub-fallback-after-kernel-panic/ I've just discovered that the article I posted is a rather old post so went hunting. If you have a RHEL subscription (I'm using the free developer subscription) you can see the

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-24 Thread Anthony K
On 23/1/20 12:44 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: ... As I will probably only have one chance to fix this (without having to get the ISP's help again) I was wondering if there are any clear instructions on how to remove a failed kernel RPM update, returning the server to the state it was in prior to

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 23 January 2020 15:22:32 Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > > > Before you try the update again, you'll have to fix the reason for the > > failure - add memory, or at least add a swap file. > > > > You could check with > > rpm -qa --last | head -20 > > which the latest packages are

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 1/22/20 3:57 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: >> I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns >> out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the >> middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover >> from this would be greatly

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Kay Diederichs
On 1/22/20 3:57 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns out > it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the middle and > things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover from this would be > greatly

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-23 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns > out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the > middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover from > this would be greatly appreciated I may sound old school but my

Re: [CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have managed to find out what happened in the yum update and it turns out it was a mess. It looks like the server ran out of memory in the middle and things then started to fail. Any advice on how to recover from this would be greatly appreciated The log below shows: [root@vps2 ~]# yum

[CentOS] yum update / kernal update failed - remove or repair

2020-01-22 Thread Gary Stainburn
I have a VPS running C7. I ran a 'yum update' which included a kernel update. The yum update wasn't a total success because mariadb updates failed. However everything else appeared to work. However, when I rebooted the server it did not restart. I have managed to get the ISP's support desk to