> For systems with Dell management software installed, yum updates are

> broken because of an incompatibility in the libsmbios library (see below)

> 

> If I remove the python-smbios, I can "fix" the problem in that updates now

> work, but this breaks the Dell management software. If I try to reinstall

>  python-smbios, I run into the same incompatibility problem.

> 

> Does anyone know how to fix or work around this problem?

> 

> Thanks

> Eve

> 

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>  --------------------

>  YUM - security

>  --------------------

> Error: Package: python-smbios-2.2.27-4.12.1.el6.x86_64 (@dell-omsa-indep/6.2)

>            Requires: libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.12.1.el6

>            Removing: libsmbios-2.2.27-4.12.1.el6.x86_64 (@dell-omsa-indep/6.2)

>                libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.12.1.el6

>            Updated By: libsmbios-2.2.27-1908.9058.el6.x86_64 (dell-omsa-indep)

>                libsmbios = 2.2.27-1908.9058.el6

>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest



According to a post from the linux-poweredge mailing list [1], removal of those packages should be sufficient:



yum remove dell_ie_rac python-smbios



However, OMSA may not start afterwards, due to some changes in the NVMe monitoring.

They now use a custom library, which segfaults on unsupported distributions. See [2] for more details.

Of course, Scientific Linux and CentOS are not supported.



[1] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2016-April/050490.html

[2] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2016-April/050486.html



Regards,

Stefan