[BlueOnyx:00975] Re: Yum updated kernel appears not to boot

[Jeff Folk]

Well it looked good, but I didn't notice that the mac addresses for  
the interfaces were swapped!

So what was my eth0 is now eth1, and what was eth1 is now eth0. Why in  
the world...? Is this even possible??

I'm back up anyway, but if this thing had been 200 miles away instead  
of my own closet, switching the cables around would have been much  
more of a pain. I still think it is an unnecessary side effect.

Jeff, the kernel only becomes active after a reboot, so I suppose when  
you get notification of a kernel update, you can take measures to  
reverse that activity.

Regards (as I sign with relief)
Jeff

On Apr 2, 2009, at 8:03 AM, Jeff Folk wrote:

> Well... with a monitor attached, the box booted and I was able to  
> pull up the boot menu. I selected the newest kernel and verified the  
> ifconfig... All looked good. Booting in the rack now to see if all  
> is okay.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Jeff Jones wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a nightmare.
>>
>> I hate kernel updates.
>>
>> It screws up my VM drivers as they all have to be complied for a
>> particular kernel.
>>
>> Is there any way to avoid installing this? I know you can exclude
>> packages, but are kernel updates mandatory?
>>
>> And it was all going so well!
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2 Apr 2009, at 12:38, Jeff Folk wrote:
>>
>>> Uh oh...
>>>
>>> Yum update was fine to CentOS 5.3 last night, but there was a kernel
>>> update in there this morning:
>>>
>>>> Resolving Dependencies
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 set to be
>>>> updated
>>>> ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 set to be installed
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>>>
>>>> Dependencies Resolved
>
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