Re: Rolling back kernel

[alan <alan clueserver org>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

>   What's the best way to roll back to a previous kernel?  The current 
> 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 is causing one of my servers to lock up once every 24 
> hours, something that did not happen with the previous kernel (2933).  If I 
> simply try to install 2933 right now, it tells me there are two files that 
> conflict with the current installation of 2944:
>
>       file /usr/include/linux/eventpoll.h from install of 
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
>       file /usr/include/linux/if_packet.h from install of 
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 conflicts with file from package 
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
>
>   Can I ignore those errors and force the installation, fix grub.conf and 
> reboot (then remove 2944) ?

If you have a known good kernel installed, change grub to use it as the 
default and then reboot.

You only need to have one copy of kernel-headers installed. You may have 
to remove the new one and then install the old one.

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