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[OCLUG-Tech] Kernel Update Goes Funny

Greetings!  I'm running SuSE 10.0 on an AMD64 X2 system.  Recently, I did a 
security update via the YOU updater that took the kernel version from 
2.6.13-15.10-smp to 2.6.13-15.11-smp.  When I rebooted, however, none of my 
modules loaded.  The boot log showed that the kernel was looking 
in /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.10-smp/, which no longer exists.  Also, uname 
reports that the kernel version is still 2.6.13-15.10-smp, but vmlinuz and 
other files in /boot are all appear to be updated to 2.6.13-15.11.  If I run 
'strings' on vmlinuz, I find "2.6.13-15.11-smp", so there's not much doubt 
that I'm actually running the new version.  So why does it think it's the old 
version?

In the end, I just created a symlink from /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.10-smp 
to  /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.11-smp and rebooted, and all of the modules loaded 
okay, but I'm still troubled by the thought that the kernel has gone 
schizoid, and there's something funky with my system.  I've trolled a few 
SuSE forums and such, but haven't run across anyone reporting a similar 
problem.  Any thoughts?

Barry

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Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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