From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061107 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.8 Description of problem: When attempting to install new kernel on i686 system, yum wants to also install an i586 kernel corresponding to one already installed. Wanted to install kernel from updates testing so did: # yum --enable updates-testing install kernel and in addition to the desired version, yum wanted to install the i586 kernel from core. Added "--disable core" and got the new kernel I wanted. Rebooted and works OK but out of curiosity did # yum install kernel and was offered the i586 2849 kernel from updates corresponding to the i686 version I already have installed: # rpm -q kernel kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686 kernel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.i686 kernel-2.6.18-1.2860.fc6.i686 # yum install kernel.i686 says "Nothing to do." as would be expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.0.1-2.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # yum install kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: Rejected i586 kernel offered by yum. Expected Results: Should only have offered to install newer kernel of the same arch as the processor and installed kernel. Additional info: # uname -a Linux tabb1.tabb 2.6.18-1.2860.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Dec 5 13:49:49 EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1000.116 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up bogomips : 2001.43
Same thing happened to me. I had to manually install i686 versions of the kernel. Additional info about my computer: [tadej@tlinux-stable ~]$ uname -a Linux tlinux-stable 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 14:51:19 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [tadej@tlinux-stable ~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up cid bogomips : 2394.32 Versions of concerned components: [tadej@tlinux-stable ~]$ rpm -q yum rpm kernel yum-3.0.1-2.fc6 rpm-4.4.2-32 kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
This also happened to me, although I noticed it only some time after the fact so I cannot report about the circumstances at the time of occurrence. However I still have $ rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n" kernel\* kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 i686 kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 i586 kernel-headers-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 i386 and I replaced kernel 2895 manually, so this definitely occurred for kernel 2869 and kernel 2895. This is on an old Athlon: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping : 1 cpu MHz : 700.059 cache size : 512 KB
*** Bug 233370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What's the contents of /etc/rpm/platform?
$ cat /etc/rpm/platform i686-redhat-linux $ rpm -q yum rpm kernel.i686 yum-3.0.6-1.fc6 rpm-4.4.2-32 kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 kernel-2.6.20-1.2925.fc6 kernel-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel-2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211941 ***