yum problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 22:49, Jesse Keating wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Resolving dependencies
>> ....Unable to satisfy dependencies
>> Package nfs-utils needs kernel >= 2.2.14, this is not available.
>
>Your DB is horked.  This is Greater than or equal to 2.2.14.  Your
> 2.6 kernel should most certainly satisfy this.  However your system
> seems to think that the kernel isn't installed.
>
According to rpm, it wasn't, so I did an install with the --justdb 
option, which fixed that right up.  Note that I don't frankly care if 
the original kernel is available for booting or not, I've currently 
about 25 choices setup in grub.conf.  I have been known to build 3 
kernels a day just for fun & testing.

[root at coyote init.d]# uname -r
2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-38

Which I think you have to admit is in danger of leaving blood on the 
floor.  It does have some IRQ handling problems though.

>I don't know what you've done to your rpm db, and most likely you
> will not be able to recover to a sane state.  I would really
> suggest starting over.

Never say never my friend.  I've just come off a weeks worth of trying 
to install FC4 on another machine & gave up after about 10 cycles.  
Those cd's went out with the trash this morning.  3 of the many 
installs worked long enough to type yum update, which promptly 
destroyed them to the point of being unbootable.  So if I do 
something here thats not recoverable via amanda, and have to 
re-install, the re-install with start with disk 1 of debian-3.1.  Or 
maybe even gentoo, but at 70, I may not have enough time to get it to 
run as clean as I have this one running now for day to day use.

-- 
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