Re: [webmin-l] Urgent Help Needed - Kernel Issues

[Barry <we...@i1...>]

I had a similar issue the past week or so where my system suddenly;y was 
hanging. First I thought is was overheating due to heavy load. But 
careful observation told me that wasn't it.

This chi a FC4 system btw.

Eventually I concluded that yum had updated the kernel RPMs when I did 
full updates. There were 4 kernels on my system under /boot. As I wasn't 
really sure when it started getting flaky (I suspect the last 2, but the 
2nd one I am not sure of) I edited my grub.conf file to force the 
original kernel to boot. All seems OK the last 4 days or so, including 
under heavy CPU load, where before it might stay up an hour to a day or so,

I never suspected a SMP problem - sheesh, is that another thing to worry 
about? kernel updates always make me nervous anyway....is there a way to 
tell yum to not update the kernel unless specifically told to?

Best,

Barry