Force a Kernel to reinstall

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:14:42 Post Subject: Force a Kernel to reinstall

CentOS 4's up2date keeps telling me I have the latest smp kernel downloaded and to use it, but I do not see it on the machine as a choice.

It is not listed in grub.conf and it is not in /boot

Where else do I need to look?

Is there somewhere else that I can delete a file or line in a file that will make the system try to download it again? Or can I force it?

I think it started to download in an up2date the other day, but the screen cleared and I wound up rebooting... Confused

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 22:56:53 Post Subject:

up2date -uf kernel-smp

yum won't even force packages for some reason if they're in the skip list so use up2date.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:56:42 Post Subject:

thanks - I'll try that tonight.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:36:48 Post Subject:

up2date -uf kernel-smp

tells me that all packages are currently up to date.

Confused

Thanks.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:32:26 Post Subject:

You're sure the package isn't already updated?

What's the output of the following commands:
uname -r
rpm -qa | grep kernel

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:48:58 Post Subject:

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:22:35 Post Subject:

You say it's not listed in /boot/grub/grub.conf and the kernel image isn't in /boot? Perhaps it was installed only to the database. Try rpm -e kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL and then up2date -uf kernel-smp to force a re-install.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:54:52 Post Subject:

Thanks - will try that tonight!! Yes to your two questions, too.

I am hoping it clears up the new found instability, otherwise I may be reformating... :banghead:

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:06:35 Post Subject:

What kind of instability? If you end of reformatting... www.gentoo.org all the way. 2006.1 was just released, too. GCC 4.1.1!

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:40:56 Post Subject:

worked like a champ, thanks.

I really don't want to re-install since configuring little things here and there is a PITA to me. I have it the way I want it, so now I want to leave it alone.