Hi !

I've got a problem with kernel installation/upgrades on only a few 
machines with yum or directly with rpm ...

root     28088  2.1  7.0  45316 36256 pts/1    S+   13:36   0:34 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum -y update kernel*
root     28094  0.0  0.1   2496   916 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.47101 4
root     28098  0.0  0.1   2496  1000 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/bash /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
root     28107  0.0  0.2   2748  1248 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/bash --norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
root     28170  0.0  0.1   2748   744 pts/1    S+   13:38   0:00 /bin/bash --norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.img 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
root     28172  0.0  0.1   2728   712 pts/1    D+   13:38   0:00 /sbin/nash --forcequiet


or directly with rpm ..

rpm -ivvv kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686.rpm


D:   install: %post(kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686) asynchronous scriptlet start
D:   install: %post(kernel-2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.i686)    execv(/bin/sh) pid 29590
++ uname -i
++ uname -i
+ '[' i386 == x86_64 -o i386 == i386 ']'
+ '[' -f /etc/sysconfig/kernel ']'
+ /bin/sed -i -e 's/^DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-smp$/DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel/' /etc/sysconfig/kernel
+ /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5


.... got somebody any idea what's going wrong or could/should i do ?

Thanks & Cheers,

        Martin