[FC4] old kernel cannot be removed (dependency failure)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:

>Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!
>
>I recently installed a complete Fedora Core 4 (i386) from scratch
>(shipped with kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) and then did a full update
>of all packages (including kernel kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4) with yum.
>
>Now that kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 is out, I'm out of space on
>filesystem /, so I need to remove old kernels first. But that fails
>due to dependencies with "cman-kernel", "dlm-kernel", "GFS-kernel" and
>"gnbd-kernel" packages (some cluster stuff according to rpm -qi).
>These packages are all for the old/initial kernel 2.6.11, and
>there are no updates for these packages (to recent 2.6.12 kernels),
>so I'm confused what these packages are good for anyway?
>
>My guess is that removal of these kernel modules won't work
>without removing packages like "dlm*", "cman*", "gnbd*" and "GFS*"
>as well.
>
>That looks really weird. Same problem on 4 systems.
>  
>
The other packages are for the GFS cluster file system. You should do 
yum remove kernel-<version>. This is mentioned in the release notes

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/#sn-kernel

regards
Rahul