From: Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke_at_gwdg.de)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 21:10:03 CET
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:10:03 +0100 (CET) From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712202107360.23597@gwdu05.gwdg.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Today's SLES-9-SP4 Updates
Hi,
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> To be correct, it is not so straightforward.
>
> problem is that there is a reference to the kernel 307 (used in Beta RC7 but
> replaced by kernel 308, because 307 killed some servers) and YOU update try to
> download it. This kernel do not exists and so
> this download never pass and update can't update a kernel.
>
> The remedy is to mount SP4 as an additional installation source and install
> kernel 308 manually using yast2 or rpm.
>
> I will retest it all with VMware based SLES9 SP3 (it allows to make a few
> tests, using snapshorts), but I am pretty sure that problem do exists
> somewhere. May be, it exists only in some rare cases (upgrade from
> intermediate state between SP3 and SP4), I do not know.
The problem exists also with "pure" SP3 (uptodate with YOU), both i386 and
x86_64.
> (Once you try YOU update and system asked for the kernel 307, nothing helps
> except direct installation.
> System do remember about the kernel 307 somewhere, so it don't work even if I
> run 'Patch CD update'.
> Direct rpm or yast2 kernel upgrade resolve it, anyway)
Yes.
Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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