On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 08:59 -0700, 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"? > How do you remove a FC3 package when the FC4 package is named the same? > > I don't think I want to "yum remove kernel-smp.i686". Which package > would it remove??? > > Thanks > > Doug P > rpm -q kernel rpm -q kernel-smp rpm -e "all the 2.6.9* and 2.6.11*" unless you have some reason to keep these around. Regards, Ted
