Im running kernel-xen but yum update tried to install kernel

[george]

Hello,

Converted my CentOS 5.7 box to CloudLinux a couple of days ago, and today I wanted to run a yum upd ate on my server.
Although my server is a Xen domU machine, and I have kernel-xen installed, yum upd ate wants to install kernel.

root@ams001 [~]# uname -r

2.6.18-374.3.1.el5.lve0.8.44xen

root@ams001 [~]# yum update

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, rhnplugin

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

* cloudlinux-x86_64-server-5: ams-proxy.cl-mirror.net

* rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net

Excluding Packages in global exclude list

Finished

Se tting up Update Process

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.18-374.3.1.el5.lve0.8.44 se t to be installed

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================================================================

Package           Arch              Version X Repository                             Size

============================================================================================================================

Installing:

kernel            x86_64            2.6.18-374.3.1.el5.lve0.8.44               cloudlinux-x86_64-server-5             21 M

Transaction Summary

============================================================================================================================

Install       1 Package(s)

Upgrade       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 21 M

Is this ok [y/N]: n

Exiting on user Command

Complete!

My DEFAULTKERNEL in /etc/sysconfig/kernel is already configured as kernel-xen

root@ams001 [~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel

# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make

# new kernels the default

UPDATEDEFAULT=yes

# DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type

DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-xen

Any ideas of how I can stop yum update try to install kernel? Or should I just go forth and install the kernel package too?

Thanks in advance,
George

[iseletsk]

George,

Please, run:
rpm -qa|grep kernel

Then run:
rpm -e full_package_name
for all kernel (but not kernel-xen) packages.
Once you no longer have any kernel packages (and only kernel-xen packages) -- they will no longer get updated.

[george]

Thanks a lot. That fixed this