Can you send me the truncated portion of the yum update.  You can do it off 
list since it is probrubly rather large.

Also, is there a reason that you have both the regular kernel installed, and 
the xen kernel installed?  Is this supposed to be a virtual machine server?

Troy

Andrew Davis wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>


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