Any thoughts anyone?

  Andrew Davis



Andrew Davis wrote:
> [root@marcom ~]# rpm -qa|grep kernel|sort
> kernel-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i686
> kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i386
> kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686
> kernel-module-madwifi-hal-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-0.9.3-10.sl5.i686
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-1.41-1.SL.i686
> kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5-1.4.4-42.SL5.i686
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-8.1.3.el5.i686
> [root@marcom ~]# rpm -qa|grep kmod|sort
> kmod-gfs-0.1.16-5.2.6.18_8.1.3.el5.i686
> kmod-gfs-xen-0.1.16-5.2.6.18_8.1.3.el5.i686
> kmod-gnbd-0.1.3-4.2.6.18_8.1.3.el5.i686
> kmod-gnbd-xen-0.1.3-4.2.6.18_8.1.3.el5.i686
> mikmod-3.1.6-38.1.i386
> yum-fedorakmod-1.0.4-1.el5.noarch
> [root@marcom ~]#
>
>   Andrew Davis
>
>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>   
>
>
> Troy Dawson wrote:
>> Can you send the following
>>   rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
>>   rpm -qa | grep kmod | sort
>>
>> Thanks
>> Troy
>>
>> Andrew Davis wrote:
>>> I'm the IT admin responsible for updating a few of our Scientific 
>>> Linux systems for Scripps Florida. I'm getting an error while trying 
>>> to update the systems. It almost appears as though the needed 
>>> packages are not available online:
>>>
>>>     [root@marcom ~]# uname -a
>>>     Linux marcom 2.6.18-8.1.3.el5 #1 SMP Mon Apr 30 14:15:37 EDT 2007
>>>     i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>     [root@marcom ~]# more /etc/redhat-release
>>>     Scientific Linux SL release 5.0 (Boron)
>>>     [root@marcom ~]# yum update
>>>     <-- data truncated -->
>>>     --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen for
>>>     package: kmod-gnbd-xen
>>>     --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 for
>>>     package: kmod-gnbd
>>>     --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
>>>     --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>>     ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 set to be installed
>>>     --> Running transaction check
>>>     Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen is
>>>     needed by package kmod-gnbd-xen
>>>     Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies
>>>     Error: Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 needs
>>>     kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5, this is not available.
>>>     Error: Package kmod-gnbd-xen needs kernel-i686 =
>>>     2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen, this is not available.
>>>     Error: Package kmod-gnbd needs kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5, 
>>> this
>>>     is not available.
>>>     [root@marcom ~]# yum list kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5xen
>>>     Loading "protectbase" plugin
>>>     Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>>>     Loading "changelog" plugin
>>>     Loading "skip-broken" plugin
>>>     Loading "downloadonly" plugin
>>>     Loading "priorities" plugin
>>>     Loading "tsflags" plugin
>>>     Loading "kernel-module" plugin
>>>     Loading "allowdowngrade" plugin
>>>     Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
>>>     Setting up repositories
>>>     Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>>     Reading repository metadata in from local files
>>>     0 packages excluded due to repository protections
>>>     0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>>>     [root@marcom ~]#
>>>
>>> I've confirmed that my running kernel is also my installed kernel 
>>> (ie: I didn't get a kernel update, but fail to reboot to it). Any 
>>> thoughts on a resolution? The only solution I see is for the needed 
>>> package to made available online. This is a "production" system, so 
>>> I'd prefer to avoid an forced updates or backing out installed 
>>> packages to get the update to run. Doing a dist upgrade is also not 
>>> an option right now...
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>
>>>   Andrew Davis
>>>
>>>
>>>   "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish
>>>    if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan
>>>
>>
>>