yum/kudzu/kernel problem

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Sep 19 21:30:44 UTC 2005


Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:53 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>Mike Chambers wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:16 +1000, Rick Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>none of this looks good:
>>>>
>>>>(FC4 with devel updates)
>>>>
>>>>Resolving Dependencies
>>>>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>>>>---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.13-1.1558_FC5 set to be installed
>>>>---> Package kudzu.i386 0:1.2.4-1 set to be updated
>>>>---> Package kernel-doc.noarch 0:2.6.13-1.1558_FC5 set to be updated
>>>>---> Package kudzu-devel.i386 0:1.2.4-1 set to be updated
>>>>--> Running transaction check
>>>>--> Processing Conflict: kudzu conflicts kernel < 2.6.13
>>>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 27, in ?
>>>>   yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>>> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 133, in main
>>>>   (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 339, in 
>>>>buildTransaction
>>>>   (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps()
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 254, in 
>>>>resolveDeps
>>>>   (checkdep, missing, conflict, errormsgs) = self._processConflict(dep)
>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 695, in 
>>>>_processConflict
>>>>   for pkg in pkgs:
>>>>TypeError: iteration over non-sequence
>>>
>>>
>>>I didn't have this problem when I upgraded.  Did you let yum update
>>>itself first before trying to do a system yum update?
>>>
>>
>>kudzu gave me that output also. The rest of the packages updated without 
>>this sort of error. Kudzu is the only package that would not install for 
>>me. Yum and the kernel seem to be fine.
>>
>>Jim
> 
> 
> Yeah, I saw the same thing too.
> 
> have a look at what kernels you've got installed.
> 
> rpm -qa kernel\*
> 
> I'll bet there are a couple of kernels that are 2.6.11 or 2.6.12 (more
> than like FC4 kernels).  Kudze won't work with these anymore (for some
> reason).
> 
> remove these kernels and then kudzu will install.
> 
> 
> Rodd


Thanks! I had a kernel from FC4 which was flagged since it was 2.6.12 
series. Kudzu installed after removing the FC4 kernel.

Jim

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