install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298 does not work

[Gene Czarcinski]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 10:50, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:58, Richard Hally wrote:
> > when I ran up2date today it appeared to install kernel 2.6.4-1.298.
> > There were no errors reported.  But it did not update grub as usual, it
> > did not put any files in /boot, and when I do rpm -q kernel it does not
> > show 2.6.4-1.298 (It shows the other kernels 253 etc)
> > [root at old1 boot]# rpm -q kernel
> > kernel-2.6.3-2.1.242
> > kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253
> > kernel-2.6.3-2.1.246
> > kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
>
> I had similar problems. Clean install of test2 with selinux in enforcing
> mode followed by a yum update. Many of the postinstall scripts reported
> failures and after a reboot (to boot the new kernel that didn't get
> installed) lots of things were very broken. Permissions on directories
> in /var were all messed up (as root I couldn't cd to /var/log to try to
> figure out what was going). So I did a clean install of test2 again,
> setting selinux to warn only, and things are much happier. It seems like
> the default policy of selinux kept many files from being updated
> properly.
>
> Let me know if you file a bug report so I can add to it.


This is an selinux - rpm problem ... see: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119538

Gene