Why does yum want to install kernel i586 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 fedora 15 M

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 25 13:51:02 UTC 2007



----- Original Message ----
From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 3:11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Why does yum want to install kernel i586 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 fedora 15 M

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 20:57 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Now why do I need that kernel 2.6.21-1.3194 i586, if I have the other
> one already?

A guess:  At some stage, some kernel modules or kernel-version-specific
drivers got installed with a prior i586 kernel, so it wants to update
one i586 kernel with the next one.  Even though you've also got i686
kernels.

You could try removing all the i586 kernels.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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Tim,

There has never been an i586 kernel installed on this machine.  yum has tried and has not succeeded in doing that. 
When fc6 was running on it, it wanted to install 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i586 kernel, which I did not let it do. Now it wants to install 3194.fc7.i586.  

[root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa kernel*
kernel-headers-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
kernel-2.6.21-1.3226.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.21-1.3226.fc7
kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
[root at localhost ~]# uname -iprm
2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686 athlon i386

I have to tell yum directly what I need to download.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this issue.

Regards,

Antonio 

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[root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
[root at localhost ~]# uname -iprm
2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686 athlon i386






       
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