[ATrpms-users] Selecting a release

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:22:06AM -0400, Jeff wrote:
> This is must be a simple question because I can't find an answer anywhere
> so I guess people just know this.
> 
> I upgraded my FC1 box to FC4 using CD's and then used "smart upgrade"
> against atrpms to upgrade it further. At this point I have these two
> kernels:
>   vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
>   vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2069_FC4
> The 2.6.11 kernel works fine, the 2.6.16 kernel does not behave very well.
> 
> I suspect the 2.6.16 kernel, the one created by smart upgrade,
> must have large stacks or something included because it swaps heavily
> and reiserfsck during boot cannot complete due to lack of memory. This
> box only has 256MB of memory.
> 
> I'm guessing I have
>    kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2_8k.i686.rpm
> 
> installed but I would be better off with
>    kernel-2.6.16-1.2069_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2.i686.rpm

No, the kernel files quoted above are not from these kernel rpms.

The best way to determine what kernel you are running is using

uname -r

If it ends with FC4, then it's the upstream kernel with 4KSTACKS.

> I can't figure out how to get smart to select the other release
> though.

smart install foo=version-release

but that's not the problem here.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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