Bug 249194

This is a very serious bug.  I turned off the installonlyn completely, and yum
still refuses to install the new kernel for absolutely no reason.  I do not want
it to remove the old kernel, I don't want to break those dependencies.  I wish
yum allowed a --nodeps option like rpm allows.  I could circumvent this.

---> Package gdm.x86_64 1:2.18.3-1.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 for package:
openafs-kernel
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-x86_64 = 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 is needed by
package openafs-kernel

I finally was able to update by installing yum-skip-broken plugin, then changing
the /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/skip-broken.conf => check_always = 1 value.

Shouldn't have to install some plugin to bandaid yum to work.

(In reply to comment #1)
> This is a very serious bug.  I turned off the installonlyn completely, and yum
> still refuses to install the new kernel for absolutely no reason.  I do not 

What version of yum are you using?

I am finding that this is happening with yum-3.2.1-1.fc7.  I have even been
seeing this behavior when I run

yum install kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7.i686

Here is the output:

Loading "presto" plugin
Loading "refresh-updatesd" plugin
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "fedorakmod" plugin
Loading "changelog" plugin
Loading "skip-broken" plugin
Loading "security" plugin
Loading "kernel-module" plugin
Loading "priorities" plugin
Loading "tsflags" plugin
Loading "downloadonly" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Setting up Presto
Reading Presto metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
filelists.sqlite.bz2      100% |=========================| 6.4 MB    00:40     
---> Package kernel.i586 0:2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.22.1-33.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for package:
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for package: kmod-em8300
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for package: kmod-sysprof
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for package:
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Unresolveable requirement /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.22.1-27.fc7
Error: Unresolveable requirement kernel-i686 = 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for kmod-em8300
Error: Unresolveable requirement kernel-i686 = 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for kmod-sysprof
Error: Unresolveable requirement /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 for
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.1-27.fc7

What's seems to be really strange is that it only wants to remove the previous
(or maybe it's the currently running) kernel.  I had this problem before when
2.6.22.1-27.fc7 came out.  It was wanting to remove kernel-2.6.21-1.3228, but
not kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.  Now it is wanting to remove 2.6.22.1-27, but none of
the others.

Just to be thorough, I tried booting to 2.6.21-1.3228, but the above command is
still wanting to remove kernel 2.6.22.1-27, so it doesn't have anything to do
with the running kernel.  It just wants to remove the last installed kernel, or
perhaps the latest version kernel.

I should also note that this is affecting the yum-downloadonly package as well.
 If I try to run something like

yum --downloadonly install kernel

Then I end up getting the same error message as above.  I would expect that it
would actually download the package, but not install it, since downloading
shouldn't be a problem.

downloadonly will only download if it can resolve the deps. It doesn't download
just any old thing. so i expect it to do that part, at least.

Does this still happen with yum-3.2.5?

yes.  yum 3.2.5 fixed a broken skip-broken plugin, but the problem still exists:

yum-3.2.5-1.fc7

Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package kernel-doc.noarch 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.22.5-76.fc7 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
fuse-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
nvidia-graphics100.14.09-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
nvidia-graphics100.14.11-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
--> Processing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 for package:
gspcav1-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
fuse-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
ieee80211-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
nvidia-graphics100.14.09-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
nvidia-graphics100.14.11-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
gspcav1-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7

Although the yum-skip-broken plugin used to fix this problem for me, with the
latest yum and plugins even that workaround seems to be broken:

Installed Packages
yum.noarch                               3.2.5-1.fc7            installed
yum-metadata-parser.x86_64               1.1.0-2.fc7            installed
yum-plugin-kmdl.noarch                   0.7-9.fc7              installed
yum-skip-broken.noarch                   1.1.7-1.fc7            installed
yum-utils.noarch                         1.1.7-1.fc7            installed

linux> yum --skip-broken update 
.
.
.
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
nvidia-graphics100.14.09-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7
Error: Missing Dependency: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 is needed by package
nvidia-graphics100.14.11-kmdl-2.6.22.4-65.fc7

Created attachment 280301 [details]
Output of trying to update the kernel from 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 to 2.6.23.8-63.fc8

It looks as though this bug is still with us in F8.  I'm attaching some output
from trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 to 2.6.23.8-63.fc8.  It
ends with the following:

--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 for package:
kmod-sysprof
--> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 for package:
kmod-em8300
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.23.8-63.fc8 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 is needed by package
kmod-em8300
Error: Missing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 is needed by package
kmod-sysprof

When I first started with F8, I only had 2.6.23.1-42.fc8.  Then I upgraded to
2.6.23.1-49.fc8 with no problem.  Now, once again it is trying to remove the
most recently installed kernel.  I find it interesting that this bug waited
until the second kernel upgrade to rear its ugly head again.

In case it wasn't clear from the above discussion, (Although it is in the
attachment.) this was with yum-3.2.7-2.fc8.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 330711 ***