Error while updating system

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:36:02 +0800, Someone wrote:

> I ran "sudo yum update -y" a few days ago, as I often do, and I saw the
> following error:
> 
> Error: Package:
> kmod-VirtualBox-3.14.6-200.fc20.x86_64-4.3.12-1.fc20.2.x86_64
> (rpmfusion-free-updates)
>            Requires: kernel-uname-r = 3.14.6-200.fc20.x86_64
>            Installed: kernel-3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64 (@updates)
>                kernel-uname-r = 3.14.4-200.fc20.x86_64
>            Installed: kernel-3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64 (@updates)
>                kernel-uname-r = 3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64
>            Installed: kernel-3.14.7-200.fc20.x86_64 (@updates)
>                kernel-uname-r = 3.14.7-200.fc20.x86_64
>            Available: kernel-3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 (fedora)
>                kernel-uname-r = 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64
>            Available: kernel-debug-3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64 (fedora)
>                kernel-uname-r = 3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64+debug
>            Available: kernel-debug-3.14.7-200.fc20.x86_64 (updates)
>                kernel-uname-r = 3.14.7-200.fc20.x86_64+debug
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> 
> So I ran "sudo yum update -y --skip-broken", as suggested, and the
> update completed without incident. Then I left my machine alone for a
> few days, and came back to it figuring that I should run another update,
> so I did, and I received the same error. Does this indicate that
> anything worrisome is wrong? 

You cannot let Yum remove old kernel packages from your installation,
if a package like kmod-VirtualBox still requires that kernel.

> And, regardless, is there anything I could
> do to rectify the issue so that I don't keep having to run yum update
> commands with the --skip-broken option?

Once you've booted with a newer kernel, you could uninstall older kernel
packages *and* any kmod packages for those kernels.