Yum problem I have not been able to overcome ...

[Paul Howarth]

Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> I've been trying to upgrade an FC2 box to FC3.  I've installed the 
> appropriate RPMs to do so, however, I keep getting the following error 
> during the transaction check:
> 
> --> Processing Dependency: librpmio-4.3.so for package: net-snmp
> --> Processing Conflict: udev conflicts kernel< 0:2.6
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ?
>    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 104, in main
>    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 174, in 
> buildTransaction
>    (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 190, in 
> resolveDeps
>    (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processConflict(dep)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 492, in 
> _processConflict
>    uplist = self.up.getUpdatesList(name=confname)
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'confname' referenced before assignment
> 
> A quick Google on this error indicated that I should remove all 2.4 
> kernels from my system -- I did so using "rpm -e" ...
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

The message "udev conflicts kernel< 0:2.6" suggests that you do still 
have a kernel that isn't 2.6 installed.

What's the output of:
$ rpm -qa 'kernel*'

Also, what version of yum do you have@
$ rpm -q yum

Paul.