The Ghost in the Machine: "conflicts filesystem" Exorcism!

[fedoraproject at oeconomist.com]

On 06/10/2012 12:42 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
On 06/10/2012 01:31 PM,fedoraproject at oeconomist.com  wrote:

>> Since updating from Core 16 to Core 17, I've been getting some yum  
>> dependency
>> failures, with the diagnostic
>>
>> "Processing Conflict: [package name] conflicts filesystem<  3"
>>
>> or
>>
>> "Processing Conflict: [package name] conflicts filesystem<  3-2"
>>
>> Apparently, this is supposed to occur when one attempts to install  
>> a package that
>> needs the new files system on a system using the old file system.
>>
>> But my file system appears to have been successfully updated.   
>> /bin, /lib, and
>> /sbin are aliases for appropriate subdirectories of /usr.  If I  
>> again try to update
>> the filesystem, dmesg reports that it was already updated.
>>
>> So at what is yum looking that tells it that the file system is not  
>> updated, and
>> how do I fix that?
>> It seems possible the system thinks you have the old version of  
>> filesystem still
>> installed.
>
> What does
>
>  rpm q filesystem     or    rpm -qa | grep ^filesystem
>
> return?

Ah, it returned

   filesystem-3-2.fc17.i686
   filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc16.i686

and

   yum erase filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc16.i686

set things right!

Thanks much!