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filoktetes

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From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

pacman-2.7.9-2t1 gives me FATAL: kernel too old

I just updated pacman, as was suggested, since a new version had come. And then it I got this:

#pacman -Syu
FATAL: kernel too old

I had to go into the cache and manually unpack the old package, and copy the executable to /usr/bin, to be able to downgrade...

I'm normally using the 2.6, but had to use the 2.4.26 just now. Isn't pacman supposed to work with 2.4 kernels anymore?

contrasutra

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From: New Jersey

Registered: 2003-07-26

Posts: 507

Re: pacman-2.7.9-2t1 gives me FATAL: kernel too old

the TESTING repo has a new version of glibc, which is only compatible with the 2.6 kernel.

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filoktetes

Member

From: Skien, Norway

Registered: 2003-12-29

Posts: 287

Re: pacman-2.7.9-2t1 gives me FATAL: kernel too old

Oops, thanks
I had acctually forgotten to turn off testing after installing x.org.
Anyway, it's interesting to learn that testing only works for 2.6.