[pacman-dev] "FATAL: kernel too old" error message during upgrade

[Andrew Fyfe]

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