[pacman-dev] "FATAL: kernel too old" error message during upgrade
Andrew Fyfe
andrew at neptune-one.net
Fri Aug 17 13:32:54 EDT 2007
Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> Hi!
>
> One of our local community members is getting this output when doing
> -Syu after installing 0.7.2:
>
> checking package integrity... done.
> cleaning up... done.
> (8/8) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
> (1/8) installing kernel-headers [#####################] 100%
> (2/8) upgrading glibc [#####################] 100%
> FATAL: kernel too old
> (3/8) installing binutils [#####################] 100%
> (4/8) installing gcc [#####################] 100%
> (5/8) installing db [#####################] 100%
> (6/8) installing gdbm [#####################] 100%
> (7/8) upgrading openssl [#####################] 100%
> (8/8) installing python [#####################] 100%
> FATAL: kernel too old
> FATAL: kernel too old
>
> Any ideas what causes this?
>
Glibc in 0.7.2 was compiled with --enable-kernel=2.4.1 (only supports
kernels >= 2.4.1), current glibc is compile with --enable-kernel=2.6.13
(only supports kernels >= 2.6.13). So my guess is the user has a kernel
older than 2.6.13. pacman -S kernel then pacman -Su should fix it.
Andrew
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