Hello,

I'm new to Red hat Linux..I have two RH workstation.
When I run the up2date -u command in my Red hat workstation, Im getting the following error.

Workstation 1:

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL.x86 ########################## Done.
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.23. ########################## Done.
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0. ########################## Done.
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL ########################## Done.
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.23.E ########################## Done.
Preparing ########################################### [100%]

Installing...
1:kernel-xenU ########################################### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-89.0.23.ELxenU;4bdef4c2: cpio: write
There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was:
There was a rpm unpack error installing the package: kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL


Workstation 2:

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name Version Rel Arch
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kernel 2.6.9 89.0.23.EL x86_64
kernel-devel 2.6.9 89.0.23.EL x86_64
kernel-largesmp 2.6.9 89.0.23.EL x86_64
kernel-smp 2.6.9 89.0.23.EL x86_64
php 4.3.9 3.29 x86_64


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
php-devel-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-domxml-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-gd-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-imap-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-odbc-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-pear-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-snmp-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26


The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Package Required by
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


What should I do to resolve this.

Thanks in advance!!

-Regards,
Rad

How many different kernels have you got installed at once ?
Just install the one you need and maybe the -devel version for that kernel. You have probably run out of space in /boot.

As for the php issues, don't upgrade php unless you upgrade all the others too.

man up2date

Hello smoker,

Since i'm very new to Linux.. i dint know much about it..
From my under standing, i think redhat leaves the older kernel if at all anything bad happens.
anyhow, according to your advice, i can remove those useless kernels

when i ran uname -s , i got

2.6.9-89.0.7.ELsmp #? SMP Wed Aug 5 14:08:20 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So,it means smp is used, how can I switch to devel ?

and also when i ran rpm -q kernel, i'm getting the following o/p

kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.5.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.3.EL
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.7.EL

but, up2date -u command is giving this,

Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
kernel-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL.x86 ########################## Done.
kernel-devel-2.6.9-89.0.23. ########################## Done.
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-89.0. ########################## Done.
kernel-smp-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL ########################## Done.
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-89.0.23.E ########################## Done.

why is the latest 2.6.9.89.0.23 is not listed when i ran rpm -q ?

Any help in giving me an insight is really appreciated!!

Thanks

When you run rpm -q you get a list of the kernels installed.

to remove the useless kernels run rpm -e kernel-xenu kernel-largesmp

the kernel-devel is the development files for the kernel so that if you have to compile anything the files are available, it is not a kernel that runs in its own right.

The latest kernel isn't listed because there was an error installing it, probably due to lack of space in /boot.

remove all the kernels except the one listed in uname command.
If there is an older version of the smp kernel, leave that one too. You only need one good kernel and the latest one. As you are running the smp kernel, get rid of the others.

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Hello Smoker,
Thanks for the response.. It helped me a lot in fixing the issue!

Hell0 Smoker,

Sorry to bug u once again..


I got php interdependency error , so u updated php

# up2date -uf php-4.3.9-3.26

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-4...

Name Version Rel Arch
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All packages are currently up to date

since there are many security update from RHN. i tried updated all the patch released from RHN. but unfortunatly, im getting the same error as i had earlier.




Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
php-devel-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-domxml-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-gd-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-imap-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-odbc-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-pear-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-snmp-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26


The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Package Required by
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

So please let me wht to do..

Have you got php installed at all ?

what does rpm -q php say ?

up2date -u means update the entire system.

To update php only say :

up2date php

What specific version of RHEL4 are you running? It looks like you are running 4.7 and trying to install 4.8 packages. RH supports all the 4.X versions (last I checked) while Centos only supports the most current(5.5, 4.8, etc). I am not sure how RH handles staying on an older version (say 4.7) and yet maintains support. It COULD be that there is something necessary for the updated php that 4.8 has that 4.7 does not.

@smoker..
Sorry for late reply... Thanks for the reply,.. these are the results of the two command...
rpm -q php
php-4.3.9-3.26


up2date php

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-x86_64-ws-4...

Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name Version Rel Arch
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
php 4.3.9 3.29 x86_64


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:

Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
php-devel-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-domxml-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-gd-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-imap-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-ldap-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-mbstring-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-mysql-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-ncurses-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-odbc-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-pear-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-pgsql-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-snmp-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26
php-xmlrpc-4.3.9-3.26 requires php = 4.3.9-3.26


The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies:
Package Required by
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

so, what should I do ?

@lazlow ..

Thanks doode!!

cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 8)

It looks like you need to update all the things mentioned in that list at the same time as php.

i.e.

All on one line of course.

@smoker..
I'm still getting the same error message