up2date problems with new kernel

[Benjamin Hornberger]

Hi all,

I am having the following problem on RHEL AS3: When running up2date, there 
was an error message saying something about the module ieee1394 not being 
available for the new kernel (I don't know how to retrieve the exact error 
message). Now it looks like the new kernel won't be used, even though the 
kernel as well as the kernel-smp-unsupported package were updated by 
up2date (I need the kernel-smp-unsupported package for firewire support).

Even though I have eight kernels available, there are only four entries in 
/etc/grub.conf (see below). It looks like the last kernel update (one 
before today's) wasn't reflected there either. Also, grub by default boots 
the non-smp kernel. The "default=1" entry in /etc/grub.conf which I 
inserted manually recently now disappeared (after today's up2date, I guess).

Why doesn't up2date enter the new kernels into grub.conf? If I enter them 
manually, is there anything important I have to consider? What will happen 
after the next up2date (in case a new kernel is available again?)?

Let me know if you need more information. I also made /var/log/up2date at 
http://xray1.physics.sunysb.edu/~hornberg/scratch/up2date if you want to 
take a look.

Thanks for your help,
Benjamin



[root at xray1 boot]# ll vmlinuz*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1241379 Jun 29 18:27 
vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1342372 Jun 29 18:15 
vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1240137 Jul 31 01:39 
vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1343256 Jul 31 01:31 
vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1243768 Aug 18 21:03 vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1353783 Aug 18 20:56 vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.ELsmp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1236945 Oct  3  2003 vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root      1339556 Oct  3  2003 vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.ELsmp

[root at xray1 boot]# more /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-15.0.3.EL)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-15.0.3.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-4.ELsmp)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS-up (2.4.21-4.EL)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img