Re: Please let me know the steps in breif to upgradetoRHELAS3 Update6.

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Hi,

Is the Update 6 kernel(kernel-2.4.21-37) installed ?
# rpm -q kernel

And then check your lilo or grub configuration file.
/etc/lilo.conf or /etc/grub.conf

Set the new kernel to default.

And reboot the machine.

After then, check the kernel version.
# uname -a

Cheers,
S. Yang

unix syzadmin wrote:
> Also, looks like there is no change in the kernel version number being
> displayed.
>  
> [oracle@bangpcrh32 Disk1]$ uname -a
> Linux bangpcrh32 2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:46:40 EDT 2004
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Please suggest,
>  
> Thanks
>  
> On 5/8/06, *unix syzadmin* <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
>      
>     Thanks a lot.  I could upgrade RHEL AS 3 Update 3 to Update 6
>      
>     The following steps were necessary.
>     1. Downloaded & Installed yum.
>     2. Installed apache.
>     3 Copied all the .rpm's, from all the RedHat U6 CD's to one of the
>     folders in the apache docroot.
>     4 Ran yum-arch
>     5 Updated the /etc/yum.conf, to provide the URL for U6 packages.
>     6 Ran yum -y update.
>      
>     I got the following error at the end though:
>     Kernel Updated/Installed, checking for bootloader
>     Lilo found - adding kernel to lilo and making it the default
>     rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
>     error: db4 error(-30982) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal
>     error, run database recovery
>     error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -  (-30982)
>     error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>      
>     Thanks
> 
> 
>      
>     On 5/5/06, *Sharpe, Sam J* <sam.sharpe-AQ/[email protected]
>     <mailto:sam.sharpe-AQ/[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>
>> > [mailto:[email protected]
>         <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Inaki Sanchez
>> > Sent: 05 May 2006 11:31
>> > To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
>> > Subject: Re: Please let me know the steps in breif to upgrade
>> > toRHELAS3 Update6.
>> >
>> > Boot the server with the first CD of U6, start the installation
>> > process and select "Upgrade an existing system"
>> > Alternatively, you can setup a yum repository with the U6
>> CD's, point
>> > the server to it and upgrade with "yum -y update"
>>
>> ... After first installing Yum which is not part of the
>> Redhat Default...
>>
>> You could however create a yum repo and add it to
>> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources at which point you could do
>> "up2date -uf" to force an upgrade.
> 
>         The following also looks handy (from
>         /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources)... I've
>         never noticed it before:
> 
>         ### A local directory full of packages (a "dir" repo). For example:
>         #dir my-favorite-rpms /var/spool/RPMS/
> 
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