Red Hat

Hi,

I want to roll back the packages that are installed during the patch installation of RHEL 5 server. There are in all 110 packages including the kernel package...
kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm

How should I proceed ?

I don't want to run rpm -e command 110 times...I can roll back kernel patch by booting through the older version..but what about the other 109 packages that are installed ?

how did you install your packages
is the server registerd with RHN ( can you use yum or up2date on it)

using

Code:

rmp -e

is nt god all the time some patches are essential and even may result in system crash if removed completely
eg: glibc for some systems

change the default kernel to old kernel before you remove the new kernel.

Normally, I would suggest a good backup and recovery process.

Many of these are not PATCHES per se. They are packages. Uninstalling them will not roll you back. They will be removed.

You will not be where you were if you do an rpm -e or yum remove.

here's the thing !

If I just change the grub.conf file and boot the server up with the old kernel will that solve my problem ?

This backout is needed since we are facing performance issues after the recent patch upgrade.

Any suggestions are much appreciated


Thanks in advance !

if the roll back is for the default kernel used then the above will solve your issue