Mandrake 9.1 kernel update problems

[Stephen]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:07, Clive DaSilva wrote:

Hello Clive

I have been running Mandrake 9.1 for about 7 months now and have just
found Mandrake 9.2 is in ISO's on <http://www.linuxiso.org/> web site.

I have downloaded it but I didn't note what the kernal version is.


> Hello
> 
> I have been running Mandrake 9.1 for about 3 months now. There was a 
> memo posted earlyin December on the Mandrake site, suggesting to upgrade 
> the stock kernel which came with the distro kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk to 
> 2.4.21.0.26mdk which was patched to guard against a root exploit. This 
> upgrade seemed to go ok, and I recall using the urpmi tool for this 
> upgrade. Since then I have tried to upgrade my kernel twice since then, 
> first to 2.4.21.0.27 mdk and also to 2.6.0.1mdk. In both cases, the 
> urpmi tool as well as "rpm --checksig kernelwhatever.rpm" reported a 
> "bad signature" and borked the installation. I got these rpms from the 
> Mandrake cooker site, so I would presume that they have not been 
> tampered with. Not sure what to do next, apart from posting a msg here 
> and a few other sites like linuxquestions.org
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Clive

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