FC6 Kernel updates

antonio montagnani antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 08:08:35 UTC 2007


2007/2/14, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> 2007/2/14, Rick Sewill <rsewill at cableone.net>:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:03 +0100, antonio montagnani wrote:
> > > I retype part of one of my messages (late January)
> > >
> > > On one of my system when I run un upgrade (by Yumex), old kernel is not
> > > deleted (on the other systems I have only two kernels).
> > > Where is the switch to fix the number of available kernels on my system???
> > >
> > > I added tokeep = 2 in installonyn.conf but no result.
> > >
> >
> > I do not know the answer to your question.  I ask out of curiosity.
> >
> > Were you modifying /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf  ?
> > In this file, is "enabled=1" ?
> >
> > While searching the Internet, "installonlyn.conf", I found complaints
> > about tokeep not working in Rawhide (but that was a while ago and I
> > assume it got fixed a while ago).
> >
> > Have you checked bugzilla?
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=Fedora
> > +Core&version=fc6&component=yum&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=
> > I did not spot a bug that specifically addressed the problem of kernels
> > not being deleted.
> >
> > When I do a kernel update, only the last two kernels are kept for me.
> > I do a yum update when I see a security update or once a week,
> > whichever time is less, so my system has the latest FC6 updates.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I have not tried changing these defaults.
> > I have no connection with the people who maintain
> > yum or installonlyn.conf
> >
> > > Furthermore, I have three kernels on the computer but if I go in the
> > > remove list of Yumex I see only two kernels ....
> > >
> > > This is happening just on one of my computers (that in my opinion have
> > > same settings, but of course it is not true!!!).Any idea??
> > >
> > > Tnx
> > > --
> > > Antonio Montagnani
> > > Skype : antoniomontag
> > >
> >
> >
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>
> not so sure to have enabled = 1 in this file, but now the computer is
> idling in my office: I will see tomorrow morning.
> Tnx (I will report)
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
>

my installonlyn.conf file is:

[main]
tokeep = 2
enabled = 1

and it is similar to the other computers.

Any other place to have a look at???
-- 
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag




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