Interesting yum problem today

Ingemar Nilsson init at kth.se
Thu Sep 13 12:17:18 UTC 2007


Hi.

I got an interesting Yum problem today. It complains that kernel 
2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by kmod-(nvidia|ntfs) for that kernel, even 
though that kernel isn't going to be touched by the update:

# yum update
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
[...]
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
[...]
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
[...]
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
kmod-nvidia
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
kmod-ntfs
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.22.1-41.fc7 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 for package:
kmod-ntfs
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 for package:
kmod-nvidia
---> Package kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.22.1-41.fc7 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
kmod-nvidia
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
kmod-ntfs
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kmod-ntfs.x86_64 0:2.1.28-3.2.6.22.1_41.fc7 set to be erased
---> Package kmod-nvidia.x86_64 0:100.14.11-1.2.6.22.1_41.fc7 set to be
erased
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
kmod-nvidia
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
kmod-ntfs
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by
package kmod-ntfs
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by
package kmod-nvidia

Any ideas, or should i file a bug right away?

Regards
Ingemar




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