Hmmm, yum offering up an older kernel than is currently installed.

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 30.09.2008 02:37, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:39 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 29.09.2008 18:15, M A Young wrote:
>>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> ---> Package kmod-nvidia.i686 0:173.14.12-4.lvn9 set to be updated
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 = 173.14.12-4.lvn9 for package: kmod-nvidia
>>> ...
>>>> ---> Package kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686.i686 0:173.14.12-4.lvn9 
>>> set to be updated
>>>> --> Processing Dependency: kernel-uname-r = 2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686 for package: kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686
>>>> --> Running transaction check
>>>> ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.26.3-29.fc9 set to be installed
>>>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>> ...
>>>> Transaction Check Error:
>>>>  package kernel-2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686) is already installed
>>>>  package kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.26.3-29.fc9.i686) is already installed
>>> What is going on is that the most recent kernel acceptable to the livna 
>>> kmod-nvidia module isn't installed, so yum tries to drag it in, only to 
>>> fail because more recent kernels are already installed. So basically, yum 
>>> is doing something sensible, but the livna repository doesn't have 
>>> updates-testing kernel support.
>> Correct afaics. Normally that doesn't result in problems like these, but 
>> the two weeks buildsys outage livna had lead to this error.
>>
>> Further: The plan is to have suppose for updates-testing in RPM Fusion soon.
>>
>> Workaround for now:
>>
>> # rpm -e kmod-nvidia --nodeps
>> # yum install akmod-nvidia
>>
>> HTH
> 
> I'm not sure that this makes sense.
> 
> Consider the following installed rpms (and I hvae akmod-nvidia
> installed)
> 
> [rodd at moose ~]$ rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686
> kernel-2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686
> kernel-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686
> [rodd at moose ~]$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia
> kmod-nvidia-173.14.12-3.lvn9.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-39.fc9.i686-173.14.12-2.fc9.i686
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686-173.14.12-2.fc9.i686
> akmod-nvidia-173.14.12-2.lvn9.i686
> kmod-nvidia-2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686-173.14.12-3.lvn9.i686
> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.12-1.lvn9.i386
> 
> If what people is saying is true, then why is yum trying to install an
> older version of kmod-nvidia than I already have?

Because there is a newer kmod-nvidia package in livna that tracks in 
that kmod-nvidia-1-2-3 for kernel-1.2.3. But you already have 
kernel-1.2.4 from updates-testing.

CU
knurd