On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 11:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 18 February 2007, Ian Astley wrote: > > On 18 Feb 2007, at 9:41, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > This box is an i686 box, but for some reason I have i586 kernels and > > > kernel-devel packages installed. I think this may be relevant to this > > > problem. > > > > 'Morning, Anne. I had a similar problem: there is an error with > > Anaconda in the installation of FC6. See, > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common > > > > A Google search for > > > > i586 i686 linux kernel anaconda bug > > > > will get you a number of alternatives to read with your Sunday coffee > > and croissants but they all say pretty much the same thing. I > > performed this fix on my machine and it's fine now. I trust the same > > will apply to your problem. > > > I knew about this, but thought that the important thing was to have the kernel > and kernel-devel packages matching. > > rpm -qa 'kernel*' --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|sort > > shows a horrible mish-mash! > > kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i686 > kernel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i686 > kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i686 > kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.i586 > kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i586 > kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i586 > kernel-headers-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i386 > > I could have sworn that querying uname had said that I had the i586 kernel > installed. OK - so now to clean up, then get the correct kernel-devel and/or > kernel-headers package. > > Thanks for the prompt. I thought I had dealt with this problem long ago. > > Later - > > Now I'm really confused. I removed the kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i586, > but when I tried to remove the kernel-headers-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i386 I was > told that 149 packages would be removed, so that's not possible. > > I then tried to get kernel-devel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i686, but yum search > couldn't find it. Running 'yum update' simply puts the .i586 package back. > I tried the various commands from > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common but none of them worked. Just rpm -e the kernel-devel packages, then use your browser to goto the fedora core dnloads and grab the correct package, then install it manually. Yum will continue to repeat the "sins of the fathers" forever until you manually install the correct devel package. The headers package will be an i386 package, AFAIK. So no problem with that. Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
