F10 > F11 issues

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Michael Schwendt<mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:49:35 +0100, Tom wrote:
>
>>
>> >
>> > What do you get for  rpm -qa kernel\*  ?
>> >
>>
>> # rpm -qa kernel\*
>> kernel-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>> kernel-devel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686
>> kernel-headers-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i386
>> kernel-PAE-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686
>> kernel-firmware-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.noarch
>> kerneloops-0.12-2.fc10.i386
>> kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686
>> kernel-xen-2.6.25.3-2.fc9.i686
>
>  (!)
>
>> kernel-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686
>> kernel-devel-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>> kernel-devel-2.6.27.29-170.2.78.fc10.i686
>>
>> > $ rpm -q --conflicts DeviceKit-disks-004-4.fc11.i586
>> > kernel < 2.6.26
>
> The kernel-xen above is lower than 2.6.26 and causes the conflict.
> You need to remove it prior to the upgrade: rpm --erase kernel-xen
>

While you are in the erasing mode, get rid of the F9 kernels and all
except for the single F10 kernel that you are using. After you
complete your upgrade to F11 erase the last F10 kernel pacakges. No
sense filling up /boot with obsolete packages.