On 11/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Calvin Dodge</b> <<a href="mailto:caldodge@gmail.com">caldodge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Nov 1, 2007 11:35 AM, vamythguy <<a href="mailto:vamythguy@gmail.com">vamythguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I've seen others reporting the same issue, but their resolutions don't seem<br>> to work for me. "yum --skip-broken upgrade" is still not working:
<br><br>I had the same problem (yum bombs out with same error in spite of<br>"--skip-broken"). I had another system with the latest kernel (since<br>it doesn't have ivtv installed, it had no problem with the download),
<br>so I manually installed that kernel.<br><br>After rebooting to the new kernel, the /dev/video* nodes were still<br>being created by udev, which means the new kernels come with working<br>ivtv modules. I then tried Mythtv, and it worked fine (Live TV) with
<br>my PVR-500 (subsequent recording also worked). Right now I'm running<br>on kernel-PAE-2.6.23.1-10.fc7.i686 (I went a little buy-crazy when<br>Crucial had 1 gig DDR2s for $40 each, so my backend has 4 gigs of<br>RAM), and all of last night's shows (including the delightful "Pushing
<br>Daisies") recorded without a hitch.<br><br>Anyway, I did "rpm --nodeps -e" to remove the older kernels and the<br>ivtv-kmdl packages.<br><br>My final step was to remove the "ivtv" package today, then restart
<br>mythbackend. It's still working fine, so it seems obvious it doesn't<br>depend on the "ivtv" package for its functionality.<br><br>So my recommendatiion is to remove the ivtv and ivtv-kmdl packages<br>
("rpm -e --repackage yourpackagenameshere"), then run "yum -y update".<br><br>(Repackage creates rpms from the existing files - handy if you realize<br>too late you've deleted a package which you don't have the rpm file
<br>for)<br><br>It worked for me, so I suspect it will work for you.<br><br>Calvin<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>I'm probably just too dense, but I tried removing the ivtv packages and then rerunning yum to no avail. I still get the dependency issue. Arg.
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