yum kernel/kmod update weirdness

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sat Jul 28 10:56:05 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 09:03 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody have an explanation for this?
> 
> 
> # rpm -qa 'kernel' 'kmod*'
> kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
> kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.21_1.3228.fc7
> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_27.fc7
> 
> # yum update
> Installing:
>  kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-33.fc7  updates            16 M
>  kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_33.fc7  livna             2.4 M
> Updating:
>  kernel-headers          i386       2.6.22.1-33.fc7  updates           652 k
> Removing:
>  kernel                  i686       2.6.22.1-27.fc7  installed          46 M
>  kmod-nvidia             i686       100.14.11-1.2.6.21_1.3228.fc7  installed         7.5 M
> 
> 
> This would cause the system to end up with this setup:
> kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7
> kernel-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_33.fc7
> kmod-nvidia-100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_27.fc7
> 
> This doesn't seem right to me.

do you have the yum kmod plugin installed?

-sv





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