Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel< 2.6.12

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 19:01 -0200, Luciano Costa wrote:
> 
> Hi fedora's user,
> 
> I had a problem here when I went to try carry out update of
> fedora-release and livna on FC3. Well, after to install new
> fedora-release and livna packages,  the ERROR messages 
> are showed when I put 'yum install [packages] ' in the terminal , such
> as:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts kernel< 2.6.12
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> What I should do in this case ?!


Have you read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq ?

In this case I think you'd need to:

yum update kernel
reboot
yum remove kernel-2.6.11\*FC3\*
yum upgrade
reboot

Paul.