[mythtv-users] atrpms also missing FC5 2139 files

[Nick]

On 27/06/06, Douglas Wagner <douglasw0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I did the same thing, ran a Yum upgrade, got pushed to 2.16.17-2139,
> realized that nothing worked (no lirc drivers, no nvidia drivers, half the
> stuff just didn't work) so I dropped back to 2133...
>
> SURPRISE the upgrade seemed to take my lirc_serial module with it.
> /lib/modules does NOT contain a lirc_serial module in it ANYWHERE.   Not in
> my 2096, not in 2133 and certainly not in 2139.
>
> NO WHERE.  So now i've dropped back to 2133 and the rest of it is fine I
> think, but my remote is BORKED badly...simply put, it won't recognize
> anything.
>
> BY default, lircd won't load as UDEV won't even create any of the /dev/lirc
> modules and thus won't simlink /dev/lirc to anything (so nothing loads).
> /dev/lircd is there but that's just a socket and nothing works with it.
> lsmod shows nothing, find /lib/modlues | grep lirc shows nothing, Simply
> put, i've lost all my kernel drivers.
>
> rpm -qa | grep lirc shows me:
>
> lirc-devices-0.7.0-1.rhfc5.at
> lirc-0.8.1-cvs20060325_58.rhfc5.at
> lirc-lib-0.8.1-cvs20060325_58.rhfc5.at
>
> So LIRC is installed, but no kmdl is installed with it.  yum install
> lirc-kmdl (and any part of that I can think of) gets me jack, and the only
> thing I can find listed on ATRPMS site by navigating down into the LIRC
> section provides me with the helpful lirc-kmdl packages for things like
> lirc-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2133_1.rhfc5.cubbi_suspend2smp which
> seems to be for some cubbi_suspend2 kernel which is obviously not
> installed...(when installed it creates a COMPLELY NEW directory structure
> under /lib/modules which means it simply won't work).

If you check the folder

/var/cache/yum/atrpms/packages/

you may find your old FC5 lirc-kmdl package is still there. The cache
is not automatically cleared and any old packages you have installed
are normally still there.

Also, if you run yum manually with the '--exclude=kernel*' option, the
kernel will not be upgraded.

Nick
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