kernel dependency?

[Peter Volsted]

hi

 > Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:54:04 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay
> <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jim wrote:
>>
>>>i want to remove the latst kernel installed,  cause when i di updates
>>>things got a bit out of hand.   (something to do with a second HD)
>>>so i opened the terminal and did this...
>>>
>>>[jim at My_World ~]$ su -
>>>Password:
>>>[root at My_World ~]# rpm -q kernel
>>>kernel-2.6.9-1.667
>>>kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>>[root at My_World ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>>error: Failed dependencies:
>>>        kernel = 2.6.6-1.435 is needed by (installed)
>>>kernel-ntfs-2.6.6-1.435.i6 86
>>>[root at My_World ~]#
>>>
>>>why would such a old kernel still be installed?
>>
>>Wierd... what do you get for the following?
>>
>>rpm -qa kernel\*
>>rpm -q --requires kernel-ntfs\*
>>yum remove kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>
>>Satish
> 
> 
> Yes, do try those.  It looks like a left-over ntfs module RPM from FC2
> has RPM confused.  Then do:
> yum install kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> I assume this will work.  If not, then you can always do it manually
> with rpm.  Yum normally saves rpm files to /var/cache/yum/
> For future reference, I think it's always better to do a fresh
> install.  Make your /home directory a seperate partition and then you
> can easily keep your data.  And back up your /root and /etc
> directories, especially if you have changed configuration files a lot.

For kernelpackage removal Thomas Chung has a good, working recipe on:
<http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-remove/>


-- 
good luck

peter