Why does upgrade fail due to kpartx version conflict on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6?
Issue
- DVD media with RHEL 5.6 is inserted into the drive. No error messages were printed in system log file. During manual upgrade of kpartx, it printed messages :
Installed kpartx :
/bin/rpm -qi kpartx
Version : 0.4.7
Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 34.el5_5.6
Build Date: Fri 17 Sep 2010 06:56:12 PM UTC
Install Date: Mon 25 Jul 2011 08:53:56 PM UTC
Build Host: x86-007.build.bos.redhat.com
Manually upgrading procedure :
$/bin/rpm -Uv --ignoresize --nodeps kpartx-0.4.7-42.el5.x86_64.rpm
ERRNO: 2, STDOUT: Preparing packages for installation..., STDERR: warning: kpartx-0.4.7-42.el5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
package kpartx-0.4.7-42.el5.x86_64 is already installed
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6
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