Yum error when attempting an update

[John Lagrue]

2009/1/29 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>

> On 29.01.2009 02:55, David Burns wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM, John Lagrue <jlagrue at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/1/27 Phil Meyer <pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com>
>>>
>>>> John Lagrue wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Attempting an update this evening I get the following error.
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Downloading Packages:
>>>>> ============================== Entering rpm code
>>>>> ===============================
>>>>> Running rpm_check_debug
>>>>> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
>>>>> kernel-uname-r is needed by (installed)
>>>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.5.i686
>>>>>
>>>> My guess is that kmod-nvidia (or something related) has not been
>> updated to match the new kernel yet.
>>
>
> Wrong guess. The modules were in the repo on the same day as the new kernel
> (within hours after that one got out; wasn't quicker as I was asleep when
> the new kernel got pushed).
>
>  kernel-uname-r is needed by (installed)
>>>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.6.i686
>>>>> kernel-uname-r is needed by (installed)
>>>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.7.i686
>>>>> Complete!
>>>>> (1, [u'Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report'
>>>>> <http://yum.baseurl.org/report%27>])
>>>>>
>>>>
> These are all kernels and those are reports for the kmod that are on the
> system. John, did you maybe remove the kernels 2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686
> 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 and 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 with "--nodeps"?
>
> But whatever, this command should solve the problem:
>
>  rpm -e kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-37.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.5.i686
>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.6.i686
>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686-173.14.15-1.fc9.7.i686
>>
>
> Then run yum-update
>
> CU
> knurd
>
> --


Thank you - that fixed it :)

JDL
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