Can't install 2895 kernel

[aragorn_246]

Hi,

Anyone else had problems installing the 2895 update?

Currently running 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 on an Athlon 64.

Tried to do a 'yum update' this evening which hung at installing kernel. Ctl-c out and restarted, which finished rest of updates.

Tried a discrete 'yum install kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6' which also hung. Looked in /boot a found the new config, symvers, system.map and vmlinuz files, but no new initrd. yum remove kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 happily removes these files.

I have even tried downloading the rpm from fedora updates and using rpm -ivh, but no difference.

Has anyone else seen this? I must be missing something!

TIA.

[Seve]

Hello:
Just curious?
How much memory do have and what size is your Fedora partition ?

Seve

[aragorn_246]

1 Gb RAM
Root partition is a 10Gb LVM (2Gb free), /boot is 100Mb with 80Mb free.

You thinking there might not be enough space in /boot to install the kernel?
I have an older kernel in there that could be moved if neccy.

[aragorn_246]

Removed all but current kernel and retried with 85Mb free - still no joy.

[Seve]

Hello:
Hmmmm ... seems odd?

Do you have any other package managers running ?
Can you open a terminal and log in as root and run

chkconfig --list | grep 5:on

and post the output

Seve

[aragorn_246]

As requested -

acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
avahi-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
bluetooth 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cpuspeed 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
firstboot 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
hidd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
hplip 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ip6tables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
isdn 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
lm_sensors 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mcstrans 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
readahead_later 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off
restorecond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rpcgssd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rpcidmapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
smartd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
vmware 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
wine 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
yum-updatesd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

[Seve]

Hello:
Thanks,
You need to disable a lot of services, the first one being yum-updatesd
type system-config-services
and use the guides here to assist you, save your settings and reboot and try yum update kernel kernel-devel again
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=102853
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-services-fc6.html

Seve

[aragorn_246]

Stopped yum-updatesd (and wine, bluetooth, isdn and more) from starting and rebooted but no difference
Time for sleep over here (UK).
Thanks so far. I'll check back in the morning.

[aragorn_246]

Got it at last.

Went back to 'what's different' principles and figured the most likely candidate was kmod-ntfs driver. So -

yum remove kmod-ntfs
yum update kernel kernel-devel
yum install kmod-ntfs

And I'm now running 2895 (Hopefully this will help anyone else trying to update with the ntfs driver)
Now it looks like I need to reinstall VMWare server Obviously didn't like the kernel change

[Seve]

Hello:
Good stuff ..I'm glad you got it sorted out.


Enjoy

Seve