I'm in YUM up2date hell

[bbales]

On Friday 02 September 2005 13:35, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 13:24 -0500, bbales wrote:
> > On Friday 02 September 2005 01:22, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 12:58 -0500, bbales wrote:
> > > > I thought yum had eliminated the old "dependency hell" we used to
> > > > fight our way through.  Now I am in the new hell.
> > > >
> > > > I installed FC3 and it came with kernel 2.6.9-1.667.  I used it a
> > > > few weeks and then ran up2date.  I was rewarded with kernel
> > > > 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3, which refused to provide sound with my Intel
> > > > i82801 sound chip.  I can go back to the 2.6.9 kernel and sound
> > > > works very well, but I can't seem to solve the sound problem with
> > > > the 2.6.12 kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Up2date shows a kernel 2.6.12-1.1376 is available, but won't
> > > > install it.  I get the following messages:
> > > > Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> > > > The following packages were added to satisfy dependencies
> > > > selinux-policy-targeted  1.17.30-3.16 is already installed
> > > > (Which doesn't explain why it won't install anything else.)
> > > >
> > > > yum update ends up with the following:
> > > > kernel conflicts with selinux-policy-targeted < 1.17.30-3.16
> > > >
> > > > yum install selinux-policy-targeted gives:
> > > > nothing to do
> > > >
> > > > yum update selinux-policy-targeted gives:
> > > > Could not find update match for selinux-policy-targeted
> > > >
> > > > Is there some way out of this?
> > >
> > > Please post the full output of:
> > > # rpm -q kernel selinux-policy-targeted
> > > # yum update
> > >
> > > Paul.
> >
> > Thanks for answering.  bruce
> > [root at blacky bruce]# rpm -q kernel selinux-policy-targeted
> > kernel-2.6.9-1.667
> > kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3
> > selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.19
> > selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-3.16
> > [root at blacky bruce]# yum update
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up Repos
> > base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB   
> > 00:00 updates-released          100% |=========================|  951
> > B    00:00 freshrpms                 100% |=========================| 
> > 951 B    00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > base      : ##################################################
> > 2622/2622 updates-re:
> > ################################################## 1025/1025 freshrpms
> > : ################################################## 291/291 Resolving
> > Dependencies
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 set to be installed
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Conflict: kernel conflicts selinux-policy-targeted <
> > 1.17.30-3.16
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: kernel conflicts with selinux-policy-targeted < 1.17.30-3.16
> > [root at blacky bruce]#
>
> You've got two selinux-policy-targeted packages installed:
>
> selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.19
> selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-3.16
>
> The new kernel conflicts with the old selinux-policy-targeted package,
> so you could try removing that:
>
> # rpm -e selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.19
>
> It's possible though that the 2.6.9-1.667 kernel won't work properly
> with the later selinux-policy-targeted package.
>
> Paul.

Ran the rpm -e and then yum update.  blacky is now happily installing 
2.6.12-1.1376_FC3 kernel.  I hope this solves my sound problem.
Many thanks, bruce