Hi. I'm getting the errors below when I try to run the following command:

sudo yum update

I also tried to run the next command, but it said that kmod-nvidia was not installed.

sudo rpm -q kmod-nvidia

The yum errors mention fedora 10 packages, but the weird thing is that this system is actually running Fedora 12. Does anyone know how to fix this? I've tried to search Google for these errors, but have not had any luck. Thanks in advance.

yum errors:

ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.6.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.7.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.8.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.3.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.4.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.6.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.7.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.8.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.3.i686
kernel-uname-r = 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE is needed by (installed) kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.4.i686
Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.6.i686 has missing requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.27.37', '170.2.104.fc10.i686.PAE')
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.7.i686 has missing requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.27.38', '170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE')
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.8.i686 has missing requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.27.41', '170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE')
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.3.i686 has missing requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.30.10', '105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE')
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.4.i686 has missing requires of kernel-uname-r = ('0', '2.6.30.10', '105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE')


I attempted to remove kmod-nvidia with yum and this is what happened:

sudo yum remove kmod-nvidia
Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
No Match for argument: kmod-nvidia
Package(s) kmod-nvidia available, but not installed.
No Packages marked for removal

*************UPDATE***********************

I seem to have solved the problem by doing the following:

sudo package-cleanup --orphans

Listed some packages including:

kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.7.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.8.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.3.i686
kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.4.i686

Then I ran the command below to remove them.

sudo yum remove kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.38-170.2.113.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.7.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.27.41-170.2.117.fc10.i686.PAE-180.60-1.fc10.8.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.3.i686 kmod-nvidia-2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i686.PAE-190.53-1.fc11.4.i686

Then my "sudo yum update" command worked.

I'm sure that others may have this problem, so I hope this helps.

just a question HOW the heck did you install two fedora 10 and two fedora 11 nvidia rpm's on fedora 12 ???? ( 4 wrong rpm's)
did you install the kmods by hand using rpm after you downloaded them ?

if so
then you learned a lesson
DO NOT use rpm to install software

use YUM

I only use yum to install or update software on my Fedora system and I know not to use rpm to install things. I only used the rpm command to try to find out what kmod-nvidia packages were on my system. This system has actually been running since Fedora 10. I upgraded it from version 10 to 11 and then from 11 to 12. What I think happened is that kmod-nvidia is managed outside of the Fedora repositories and the Fedora upgrade process is not smart enough to remove the old versions of this package. If any Fedora developers are reading this, then I would like to put in a request that you add 1 or 2 lines of code to your upgrade process to remove kmod-nvidia when upgrading from one version of Fedora to another because this package is used by many NVidia cards for 3D acceleration. Thanks in advance if you do this. If you don't think this is a good idea, then please suggest something, besides switching to an ATI video card, so that this doesn't happen again.

that will never happen .The nvidia driver is proprietary and as such is not part of the base fedora install and never will be .
so upgrade( preupgrade - is the recommended if you do not fallow the dev's recommendations and do a 100% clean install ) will never be handled by the "upgrade" option

this is 100% up to YOU to handle
as with ALL non opensource you might install
fedora is not responsible for the non open source code you install from 3'd parties

I'm not saying that they should include the package. I know that this will never happen. Since this package is so common, I don't see why they can't have preupgrade automatically run the "yum remove" command to remove the old kmod-nvidia packages so the user can easily install the one for the current distro. This sounds trivial to me.