Removing a kernel

Christian Del Pino del.pic at verizon.net
Sun Sep 12 17:47:22 UTC 2004


I ran rpm -Va and I noticed that on the packages listed when I try to
remove the kernel, I got the following:

Unsatisfied dependencies for iptables-1.2.9-2.3.1: kernel >= 2.4.20

What would I need to do?

Chris

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 13:12, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:49:44 -0400, Christian Del Pino wrote:
> 
> > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > kernel >= 2.4.20 is needed by (installed) iptables-1.2.9-2.3.1
> 
> > This is what I got from rpm --query kernel
> > 
> > kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3
> > kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
> > kernel-2.6.8-1.521
> 
> Doesn't make sense that you can't erase the latest kernel then. For
> instance,
> 
>   $ rpm -q --provides kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
>   kernel = 2.6.7
>   kernel-drm = 4.3.0
>   kernel = 2.6.7-1.494.2.2
> 
> so you can see that "iptables" wants "kernel >= 2.4.20" and should
> be happy with "kernel = 2.6.7", because 2.6.7 > 2.4.20. Same for the
> other errors you got, e.g.
> 
>   kernel-drm = 4.3.0 is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-6.7.0-5
> 
> Could be that your RPM database is damaged. Run through "rpm -Va"
> or verify individual packages. Maybe that will turn up something.
> 





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