Brent L. Bates wrote:
>      No joy in Mudville.
> 
>      I started up yumex.  Enabled `sl-testing' and installed the latest yum
> update.  After that was finished, I then uninstalled the lastest kernel
> update, kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64 and the XFS module as well,
> kernel-module-xfs-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5-0.4-2.sl5.x86_64.  That finished and I
> rebooted the machine into the original kernel,
> kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.x86_64.
> 
>      I started up yumex again and installed the lastest kernel and XFS modules
> again.  That finished up.  Exited yumex and rebooted.  Same as before, could
> not boot up, didn't like the XFS file system.  I had to boot the old kernel
> run `mkinitrd' and then I could boot from the new kernel.
> 
>      More details.  We have 4 drives, each drive has 4 partitions.  The first
> partitions of each drive are mirrored as /boot.  Second partitions are swap.
>  3rd partitions are striped as / and the 4th partitions as a data partition.
>  All file systems are XFS.
> 
>      Am I doing something wrong here?

Hi Brent,
I'm a little confused.  What is the point of updating yum if you are 
using yumex?
Try doing the update without yumex, just using yum.
Troy
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