install of kernel 2.6.4-1.298 does not work

[Daniel J Walsh]

Thomas J. Baker wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:58, Richard Hally wrote:
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>>when I ran up2date today it appeared to install kernel 2.6.4-1.298. 
>>There were no errors reported.  But it did not update grub as usual, it 
>>did not put any files in /boot, and when I do rpm -q kernel it does not 
>>show 2.6.4-1.298 (It shows the other kernels 253 etc)
>>[root at old1 boot]# rpm -q kernel
>>kernel-2.6.3-2.1.242
>>kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253
>>kernel-2.6.3-2.1.246
>>kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
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>I had similar problems. Clean install of test2 with selinux in enforcing
>mode followed by a yum update. Many of the postinstall scripts reported
>failures and after a reboot (to boot the new kernel that didn't get
>installed) lots of things were very broken. Permissions on directories
>in /var were all messed up (as root I couldn't cd to /var/log to try to
>figure out what was going). So I did a clean install of test2 again,
>setting selinux to warn only, and things are much happier. It seems like
>the default policy of selinux kept many files from being updated
>properly.
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>Let me know if you file a bug report so I can add to it.
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Make sure you run newrole -r sysadm_r before execing rpm.

You should have got an error when you ran or if you are running under 
unlimitedUsers, it should have
worked,  The problem is that it half worked.  :^)

>tjb
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