[Yum] Weird yum/kernel problem

[Anders Blomdell]

On 1 February 2015 11:04:46 CET, Bob McKay <rimsnucse at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Anders; apologies for missing your post earlier. You and Brian both
>suggested dkms, but the problem with dkms is that if it fails, the
>system will just fail to reboot - which means physically going to the
>lab to fix things, and would be a disaster if I am overseas. So I think
>sticking with manual building is necessary. Thanks for the point about
>devel; but it isn’t the cause of the problem - I always wait to rebuild
>until kernel headers and devel for the new kernel are available (the
>local mirrors are sometimes a bit slow to update, so I’m very aware of
>the risk of mismatched latest versions). By manually rebuilding, I can
>see that the build failed while I’m still in a running system, and I
>can usually repair and reboot to the preceding system when it fails.
>Since I’m usually doing this remotely, that’s a really important plus.
Perhaps instruct grub not to use the new kernel, and let dkms switch grub
default when build succeds?

>Anders Blomdell said...
>
>Use appropriate scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d or
>/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms
>and kernel modules can be rebuilt right after a new kernel is installed
>(of course you need kernel-devel).
>
>/Anders
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