Old kernel version in use even after upgrade. Please suggest.

Mike Burger mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Jun 22 15:31:11 UTC 2006


On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, unix syzadmin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We recently upgraded a server running RHEL AS3 Update3 to Update5.
> We have used yum to update.
> I could confirm the upgrade by looking at the /etc/redhat-release file.
>
> # more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
>
> However the kernel version shown for the uname -a command looks to be still
> old.
>
> # uname -a
> Linux bngddia6 2.4.21-20.EL #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:30:22 EDT 2004 ia64 ia64
> ia64 GNU/Linux
>
> # rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-2.4.21-20.EL
> kernel-2.4.21-32.EL
> kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.12
> kernel-source-2.4.21-32.EL
> kernel-source-2.4.21-20.EL
>
>
> How do I change this.  Please suggest.

Did you reboot after the update?
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