Rolling back kernel
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Thu Apr 19 18:21:04 UTC 2007
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> What's the best way to roll back to a previous kernel? The current
> 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 is causing one of my servers to lock up once every 24
> hours, something that did not happen with the previous kernel (2933). If I
> simply try to install 2933 right now, it tells me there are two files that
> conflict with the current installation of 2944:
>
> file /usr/include/linux/eventpoll.h from install of
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 conflicts with file from package
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
> file /usr/include/linux/if_packet.h from install of
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 conflicts with file from package
> kernel-headers-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
>
> Can I ignore those errors and force the installation, fix grub.conf and
> reboot (then remove 2944) ?
If you have a known good kernel installed, change grub to use it as the
default and then reboot.
You only need to have one copy of kernel-headers installed. You may have
to remove the new one and then install the old one.
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