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

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/8/17, Andrew Fyfe <andrew at neptune-one.net>:
> 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.
>

Thanks! Didn't know about that.

Hmm, as I see here: ftp://archlinux.org/archive/pkgs/0.7.2/os/i686/
0.7.2 contained these kernel packages:
kernel24-2.4.32-1
kernel24-scsi-2.4.32-1
kernel26-2.6.16.18-1
I ask him about kernel.

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)