removing old Kernels

Brian Chadwick brianchad at westnet.com.au
Wed Aug 23 22:45:58 UTC 2006


Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
> Greetings Rahul,
>
> Rahul wrote:
>
>
>> FC5 has a yum plugin installed by default to do this. In previous 
>> versions,
>>
>> # yum install yum-utils
>> # package-cleanup --oldkernels
>>
> [root at Magellan boot]# package-cleanup --oldkernels
> Setting up yum
> Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> Finished
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 302, in ?
>     main()
>   File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 283, in main
>     removeKernels(my, opts.kernelcount, opts.confirmed, opts.keepdevel)
>   File "/usr/bin/package-cleanup", line 193, in removeKernels
>     (kver,krel) = runningkernel.split('-')
> ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
>
> What can you make out of this ?
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>   Kostas



rpm -e kernel-version

you can get a list of kernels and their versions installed with "rpm -q 
kernel"

instaed of doing "rpm -e kernel" ... you must append the version to the 
kernel name ...

dont just go deleting files...use rpm





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