[FC4] old kernel cannot be removed (dependency failure)
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Mon Aug 29 20:21:07 UTC 2005
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:18:16AM +0000, Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
> Oops, that was too early ...
>
> > I couple of minutes after I sent my mail I realized that I didn't try
> > yet to remove the old versions of cman-kernel, dlm-kernel, GFS-kernel
> > and gnbd-kernel. Okay, give it a try, and say what? *Now* the old
> > kernel 2.6.11 could be removed without dependency issues. Great!
>
> Problem not solved. Now it looks like the cman/dlm/GFS/gnbd stuff
> requires the previous kernel 2.6.12-1.1398 to be installed. *sigh*
>
>
> # rpm -qa | egrep kernel | sort
> cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.9
> dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.10
> GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.9
> gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.43
>
> # rpm -e kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
> error: Failed dependencies:
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed by (installed) cman-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.9.i686
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed by (installed) dlm-kernel-2.6.11.5-20050601.152643.FC4.10.i686
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed by (installed) gnbd-kernel-2.6.11.2-20050420.133124.FC4.43.i686
> /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 is needed by (installed) GFS-kernel-2.6.11.8-20050601.152643.FC4.9.i686
The updates for those modules usually lag the kernel release
(just like any other out-of-tree module) a little.
If you aren't using them, you can just remove them with no
adverse effects. (And if you don't know if you are using them -- you aren't).
Dave
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