Error, but uname -r give different indications

[Peter Lauri]

Yes now it works, it is starting to update. However, new problem:

warning: /etc/passwd created as /etc/passwd.rpmnew
warning: /usr/lib/security/classpath.security created as
/usr/lib/security/classpath.security.rpmnew
warning: /etc/pam.d/system-auth created as /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew

What does that actually mean? Could I just copy the passwd to passwd.bak and
then rename passwd.rpmnew to passwd? And same for the others?

Best regards,
Peter Lauri

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan [mailto:alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 12:05 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Cc: lists at dwsasia.com
Subject: Re: Error, but uname -r give different indications

> Error: hal conflicts with kernel < 2.6.17
> Error: autofs conflicts with kernel < 2.6.17

They only work with a kernel of 2.6.17 or higher


> However, when I do: uname -r I get:
> 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6

This is your running kernel not the only kernel you have and the rpm
system is smart enough to realise this.

> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.15-1.2054_FC5      installed
> 
> kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.18-1.2239.fc5      installed

So you need to get rid of 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5


Basically the packaging system has realised that if you choose to boot the
old kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 which you have installed and it let you
update hal or autofs, then the result would not work. 

If you know you have another kernel which does work then you can remove
the 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernel.