Douglas Phillipson wrote:
I think these two things might be related but I'm not sure.
Several months ago I used yum to update from FC3 to FC4. I removed
the FC3 "fedora-release" package and installed the FC4 "fedora-release"
package then did yum -y update. All went smooth. I've been running
updates every week for quite a while with no problems. Today during a
routine yum update I got the following dependency error:
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Conflict: hal conflicts kernel < 2.6.11
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: hal conflicts with kernel < 2.6.11
I'm running 2.6.12.
2.6.12-1.1447_FC4smp #1 SMP
I ran a list of installed kernels and discovered:
kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 installed
kernel.i686 2.6.9-1.667 installed
kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 installed
kernel.i686 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.9-1.667 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 installed
kernel-smp.i686 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 installed
Is the old FC3 kernel causing my dependency problem with "hal"?
Yes.
How do you remove a FC3 package when the FC4 package is named the same?
They aren't the same.
Do this to remove the pre-FC4 kernels:
# rpm -e kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 \
kernel-2.6.9-1.667 \
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.35_FC3 \
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3 \
kernel-smp-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 \
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667 \
kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
You might also want to remove some of the older FC4 kernels if you're
happy with the current kernel.
Paul.
