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

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Barry wrote:

> 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?

from man yum

      --exclude=package
              Exclude a specific package by name or glob from updates on 
all repositories.
              Configuration Option: exclude

I would think that in /etc/yum.conf an entry on a separate line such as

exclude=kernel

would do the trick.

John Hinton