kernel dependency?
Peter Volsted
pvolsted at image.dk
Thu Dec 23 07:32:27 UTC 2004
hi
> Jonathan Berry wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:54:04 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay
> <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jim wrote:
>>
>>>i want to remove the latst kernel installed, cause when i di updates
>>>things got a bit out of hand. (something to do with a second HD)
>>>so i opened the terminal and did this...
>>>
>>>[jim at My_World ~]$ su -
>>>Password:
>>>[root at My_World ~]# rpm -q kernel
>>>kernel-2.6.9-1.667
>>>kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>>[root at My_World ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>>error: Failed dependencies:
>>> kernel = 2.6.6-1.435 is needed by (installed)
>>>kernel-ntfs-2.6.6-1.435.i6 86
>>>[root at My_World ~]#
>>>
>>>why would such a old kernel still be installed?
>>
>>Wierd... what do you get for the following?
>>
>>rpm -qa kernel\*
>>rpm -q --requires kernel-ntfs\*
>>yum remove kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>>
>>Satish
>
>
> Yes, do try those. It looks like a left-over ntfs module RPM from FC2
> has RPM confused. Then do:
> yum install kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> I assume this will work. If not, then you can always do it manually
> with rpm. Yum normally saves rpm files to /var/cache/yum/
> For future reference, I think it's always better to do a fresh
> install. Make your /home directory a seperate partition and then you
> can easily keep your data. And back up your /root and /etc
> directories, especially if you have changed configuration files a lot.
For kernelpackage removal Thomas Chung has a good, working recipe on:
<http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/yum-remove/>
--
good luck
peter
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