Hmmm, yum offering up an older kernel than is currently installed.

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 29.09.2008 18:15, M A Young wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > ...
> >> ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 0:173.14.12-4.lvn9 set to be updated
> >> --> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 = 173.14.12-4.lvn9 for package: kmod-nvidia
> > ...
> >> ---> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686.i686 0:173.14.12-4.lvn9 
> > set to be updated
> >> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 for package: kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686
> >> --> Running transaction check
> >> ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.26.3-29.fc9 set to be installed
> >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > ...
> >> Transaction Check Error:
> >>  package kernel-2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686) is already installed
> >>  package kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686) is already installed
> > 
> > What is going on is that the most recent kernel acceptable to the livna 
> > kmod-nvidia module isn't installed, so yum tries to drag it in, only to 
> > fail because more recent kernels are already installed. So basically, yum 
> > is doing something sensible, but the livna repository doesn't have 
> > updates-testing kernel support.
> 
> Correct afaics. Normally that doesn't result in problems like these, but 
> the two weeks buildsys outage livna had lead to this error.
> 
> Further: The plan is to have suppose for updates-testing in RPM Fusion soon.
> 
> Workaround for now:
> 
> # rpm -e kmod-nvidia --nodeps
> # yum install akmod-nvidia
> 
> HTH

I'm not sure that this makes sense.

Consider the following installed rpms (and I hvae akmod-nvidia
installed)

[rodd at moose ~]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686
kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686
[rodd at moose ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-3.lvn9.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686-173.14.12-2.fc9.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-173.14.12-2.fc9.i686
akmod-nvidia-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686-173.14.12-3.lvn9.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386

If what people is saying is true, then why is yum trying to install an
older version of kmod-nvidia than I already have?


R.
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