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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Kernel Update Goes Funny

On Wednesday 26 July 2006 17:57, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> Have you checked /vmlinuz to make sure it's a symbolic or hard link to
> the appropriate kernel in /boot?  This tends to be a LILO thing rather
> than a GRUB thing, but it's possible your GRUB config points there.

Yep, here's the contents of /boot (this will be ugly due to wrapping):

darth:/ # ls -l /boot
total 7235
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root     472 Jul 25 02:29 .
drwxr-xr-x  26 root root     672 Jul 25 08:54 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  923611 Jul 20 10:46 System.map-2.6.13-15.11-smp
-rw-------   1 root root     512 Dec 10  2005 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       1 Jan  9  2006 boot -> .
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   55025 Jul 20 10:53 config-2.6.13-15.11-smp
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     512 Jan  9  2006 grub
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      23 Jul 25 02:29 initrd -> 
initrd-2.6.13-15.11-smp
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 2542758 Jul 25 02:29 initrd-2.6.13-15.11-smp
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  128000 Dec 10  2005 message
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   71540 Jul 20 10:54 
symvers-2.6.13-15.11-x86_64-smp.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1975573 Jul 20 10:53 vmlinux-2.6.13-15.11-smp.gz
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      24 Jul 25 02:29 vmlinuz -> 
vmlinuz-2.6.13-15.11-smp
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 1685923 Jul 20 10:46 vmlinuz-2.6.13-15.11-smp

And:

darth:/ # strings /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.13-15.11-smp | grep 2.6.13
2.6.13-15.11-smp (geeko@buildhost) #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 09:43:01 UTC 2006

But:

darth:/ # uname -a
Linux darth 2.6.13-15.10-smp #1 SMP Fri May 12 16:11:24 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 
x86_64 GNU/Linux

And:

darth:/ # cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.13-15.10-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 
(prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Fri May 12 16:11:24 UTC 2006

Weird, no?

> Obviously, checking your GRUB config is a good idea, too.

I looked at that - it hasn't changed since I installed SuSE on this box last 
winter.

Barry

-- 
Barry McLarnon  VE3JF  Ottawa, ON

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