Xen kernel refuses to uninstall with latest test updates

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 15:20:56 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 09:16 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm trying to get rid of the latest Xen kernel; I don't want xen kernels 
> on my machine, period. But the latest one installed with the last round of 
> test updates yesterday gives me:
> 
> rpm -e kernel-xen-2.6.20-2936.fc7
> error: Failed dependencies:
>          xen-hypervisor-abi = 3.1 is needed by (installed) 
> xen-3.1.0-4.fc7.i386
> 
> What can I do? Any tips? Thanks!

If you're removing the xen kernel, that's going to make the xen
userspace stuff useless. So you'll need to remove that too - it depends
on the xen kernel.

Probably it'd be a lot easier to do: yum remove kernel-xen
Yum will work out the dependencies for you. It's magical!

-w
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