Can I have you run:

yum clean expire-cache

and try again?

On 01/05/2018 04:35 AM, Jean-Michel Barbet wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Trying to update to recent kernel, in the list of updated package
> there are 4 device-mapper updated packages and it looks like that
> the new device-mapper-event.x86_64 0:1.02.117-12.el6 conflicts with
> the installed lvm2-libs-2.02.100-8.el6.x86_64 :
>
>
> yum update
> Loaded plugins: priorities, security
> Setting up Update Process
> 715 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package device-mapper.x86_64 0:1.02.79-8.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package device-mapper.x86_64 0:1.02.117-12.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package device-mapper-event.x86_64 0:1.02.79-8.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package device-mapper-event.x86_64 0:1.02.117-12.el6 will be an 
> update
> ---> Package device-mapper-event-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.79-8.el6 will be 
> updated
> ---> Package device-mapper-event-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.117-12.el6 will be 
> an update
> ---> Package device-mapper-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.79-8.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package device-mapper-libs.x86_64 0:1.02.117-12.el6 will be an 
> update
> ---> Package kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-696.18.7.el6 will be installed
> ---> Package kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-696.10.3.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-696.18.7.el6 will be an 
> update
> ---> Package kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.32-696.10.3.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.32-696.18.7.el6 will be an 
> update
> ---> Package kpartx.x86_64 0:0.4.9-72.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package kpartx.x86_64 0:0.4.9-100.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package microcode_ctl.x86_64 1:1.17-17.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package microcode_ctl.x86_64 1:1.17-25.2.el6_9 will be an update
> ---> Package nagios-common.x86_64 0:4.3.2-5.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package nagios-common.x86_64 0:4.3.4-7.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package nrpe.x86_64 0:3.1.1-1.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package nrpe.x86_64 0:3.2.0-6.el6 will be an update
> ---> Package tzdata.noarch 0:2017b-1.el6 will be updated
> ---> Package tzdata.noarch 0:2017c-1.el6 will be an update
> --> Processing Conflict: device-mapper-event-1.02.117-12.el6.x86_64 
> conflicts lvm2-libs < 2.02.111
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: device-mapper-event conflicts with lvm2-libs-2.02.100-8.el6.x86_64
>
>
> This is not a new story but I am wondering if someting has been
> forgotten upstream and if other sites are seeing the same...
>
> Thank you.
>
> JM
>

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