[rhn-users] unresolvable chain of dependencies

[Scott D. Anderson]

By default, up2date skips kernel packages.  (Why is that?)  Because of
this, RHN says that my server is out of date and that there are critical
updates to be applied.  

So, I removed the skipping of kernel patches and did "up2date -u" and got
the following.  I looked on bugzilla and didn't find this listed at all,
and I'm wondering if I'm okay to ignore this (critical!) kernel update.

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-es-4...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel     
----------------------------------------------------------
kernel                                  2.6.9          42.0.2.EL        
x86_64
kernel-devel                            2.6.9          42.0.2.EL        
x86_64
kernel-doc                              2.6.9          42.0.2.EL        
noarch
kernel-smp                              2.6.9          42.0.2.EL        
x86_64
kernel-smp-devel                        2.6.9          42.0.2.EL        
x86_64
kernel-utils                            2.4            13.1.83          
x86_64


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL                   conflicts with ipw2200-firmware <
2.2 
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL               conflicts with ipw2200-firmware <
2.2 

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Scott

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Scott D. Anderson
Computer Science Department
Wellesley College
Scott.Anderson at acm.org