Mandrake 9.1 kernel update problems

[Clive DaSilva]

Stephen wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:07, Clive DaSilva wrote:
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>Hello Clive
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>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.
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>I have downloaded it but I didn't note what the kernal version is.
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>>Hello
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>>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
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>>Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>>Clive
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Hi Stephen

I believe the kernel version in that distro is 2.4.22 or 23. I stayed 
away from it after the reported problems with the cdrom drive

Thanksfor your response

Clive

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