HEP System Administration

To force install of the new kernel, use:

up2date -uf --nox

I got the following error when running up2date:

error: %preun(openmpi-libs-1.2.3-1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 2
There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was:
Failed running rpm transaction

I found that this was a known issue in that the openmpi (and lam) packages cannot be updated. To fix, run this:

rpm -qa | grep '^openmpi-\|^lam-' | xargs rpm -e --noscripts --allmatches

Then, run up2date again and everything works ok.