Bugzilla – Bug 117317
kernel-um fails dependencies during upgrade 9.3 - 10.0 RC1
Last modified: 2005-09-27 15:50:42 UTC
During an upgrade install from 9.3 to 10.0 RC1, kernel-um fails to install with several "cannot resolve dependency" errors. Ignoring the failure allows the system to be booted, but YOU update of kernel will fail again with the same errors. If several "beta 3" upgrades are selected along with the kernel, YOU will succesfully install the kernel-um package. I had this failure on two seperate systems using different CD sets,
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118100 ***
I don't agree that this is a duplicate of 118100 which describes normal installing of packages. This bug refers to an "ABORT, RETRY, CONTINUE" pop up message during a system upgrade install. I would assume that ALL package dependencies get resolved or the offending packages deleted during the package scan prior to the upgrade and one should NEVER get an error message during a system upgrade. Even if this is resolved with a DVD, this system does not have a DVD drive and CD's have always been used in the past for installation and upgrades.
It _is_ a duplicate, the underlying problem is the same: Some uml packages are on the DVD only due to space constrains. Thats why they can't be upgraded to the 10.0 versions when using the CD set, which in turn leads to the dependency problems you are seeing during upgrade. You can ask yast to remove the offending packages (i.e. the ones which can't be upgraded) during CD upgrade, then re-install them from a complete install source (via ftp from ftp.suse.com for example) after finishing the CD upgrade.