Dear SL gurus, Our SL4 AFS clients are unable to update to latest kernel, the error is
Transaction Check Error: package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.4.7-68.2.SL4 (which is newer than kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL-1.4.7-68.SL4) is already installed package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.4.7-68.2.SL4 (which is newer than kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp-1.4.7-68.SL4) is already installed Can someone advise on the fix? I've tried yum clean all; yum update - same error (wasn't likely to work, but -) Also tried change /etc/yum.repos.d/sl-errata.repo & sl.repo to point from our SL4.4 & 4.5 mirror to using SL's own repos (in case the problem is our mirror server), yum clean all, yum update - same error On one SL4.4 afs client (where it isn't critical that AFS works), openafs was removed, then yum update worked, but now can't reinstall openafs - it wants kernel 2.6.9-11 installed! Why?? r...@bsesrv3> yum install openafs-client Loading "kernel-module" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package openafs-client.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: openafs = 1.4.7 for package: openafs-client --> Processing Dependency: openafs-kernel for package: openafs-client --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package openafs.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-11.EL.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.9-11.EL for package: kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-11.EL --> Finished Dependency Resolution Beginning Kernel Module Plugin ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.17.ELsmp.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.22.ELsmp.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-89.0.3.ELsmp.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.ELsmp.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-89.0.3.EL.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.SL4 set to be installed ---> Package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.x86_64 0:1.4.7-68.2.SL4 set to be installed Finished Kernel Module Plugin Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.9-11.EL is needed by package kernel-module-openafs-2.6.9-11.EL r...@bsesrv3> rpm -qa | grep 2.6.9-11 /* nothing */ r...@bsesrv3> rpm -qa | grep ^kernel | sort kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64 kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.x86_64 kernel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL.x86_64 kernel-2.6.9-89.0.3.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.3.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL.x86_64 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-89.0.3.EL.x86_64 kernel-utils-2.4-14.1.117.2.1.x86_64 Can anyone advise on a fix. Please + thank you very much!