Hello, I had the exact same thing happen.
The following fixed the issue, solution came from Red Hat Support: yum clean all yum update. Stephen L. LaBelle Metropolitan State College of Denver Senior System Administrator Database Administration Team Information Technology Infrastructure Services [email protected] 303-556-3644 ----- Original Message ----- From: Carlos Vicente <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:54 am Subject: [rhelv5-list] device-mapper-multipath and dependency problems To: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list" <[email protected]> > I've recently found the following problems while doing yum update: > > --> Processing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 for > package: mkinitrd > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-33.el5.i386 from installed has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: kpartx is needed by package > dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-33.el5.i386 (installed) > mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 from installed has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 is needed > by package mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 (installed) > mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 from installed has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: kpartx >= 0.4.7-9 is needed by package > mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 (installed) > Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 is > neededby package mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 (installed) > Error: Missing Dependency: kpartx >= 0.4.7-9 is needed by package > mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-44.i386 (installed) > Error: Missing Dependency: kpartx is needed by package > dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-33.el5.i386 (installed) > > > The only solution I found yesterday was to manually install the RPMs > with rpm -Uvh --nodeps. Of course, that doesn't scale to dozens of > servers. Are other people seeing this? > > Any help greatly appreciated. > > cv > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
