Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too. (Samuel Sieb)

[George R Goffe]

Sam,

Thanks for responding to this plea for help... It's appreciated.

As expected, all kernel packages would have been successful... EXCEPT for the kernel-headers package... 503 packages affected. Sigh.

What are your thoughts?

Best regards,

George...

Sam wrote, "Try uninstalling each one separately to see which one is causing the 
problem."

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[Sérgio Basto]

On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 15:34 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Thanks for responding to this plea for help... It's appreciated.
>
> As expected, all kernel packages would have been successful... EXCEPT
> for the kernel-headers package... 503 packages affected. Sigh.

yes , you should keep kernel-headers , you may do

dnf distro-sync kernel-headers
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Best regards,
>
> George...
>
> Sam wrote, "Try uninstalling each one separately to see which one is
> causing the 
> problem."
>
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[George R Goffe]

Sergio,

Thanks for responding to my plea... It's definitely appreciated.

Part of the install of VirtualBox is the compilation of LKMs which use the kernel headers. Since 5-19 lacks support in VB (as far as I know at this point), if I run vboxconfig to recompile the LKMs, that compilation would fail and VB would stop working (I think). Parts of me thinks that if the compile fails, the targets of the compile process would remain unchanged but I'm not willing to take the chance. Sigh...

Am I missing something here?

Best regards,

George...

On Sunday, July 10, 2022 at 02:50:17 PM PDT, Sérgio Basto  wrote:

On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 15:34 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Thanks for responding to this plea for help... It's appreciated.
>
> As expected, all kernel packages would have been successful... EXCEPT
> for the kernel-headers package... 503 packages affected. Sigh.

yes , you should keep kernel-headers , you may do

dnf distro-sync kernel-headers
> What are your thoughts?
>
> Best regards,
>
> George...
>
> Sam wrote, "Try uninstalling each one separately to see which one is
> causing the 
> problem."
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[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2022-07-11 at 00:07 +0000, George R Goffe via test wrote:
> Sergio,
>
> Thanks for responding to my plea... It's definitely appreciated.
>
> Part of the install of VirtualBox is the compilation of LKMs which use the kernel headers. Since 5-19 lacks support in VB (as far as I know at this point), if I run vboxconfig to recompile the LKMs, that compilation would fail and VB would stop working (I think). Parts of me thinks that if the compile fails, the targets of the compile process would remain unchanged but I'm not willing to take the chance. Sigh...
>
> Am I missing something here?

You can do what Sergio suggested - `dnf distro-sync kernel-headers`. If
you now have only the official repos enabled, that should downgrade it
to the 'correct' current version for your release.

Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too.

[George R Goffe]

Hi,

Thanks to those who responded! Sam, Dan, Adam, Sergio...

The problem has been resolved. I removed all but the kernel-headers package and paused there to run vboxconfig. I got lucky so I stopped... Otherwise I would have done the suggested "dnf distro-sync kernel-headers" command.

I experienced other problems during this "project", namely the command line length problem in the grub menu entry (extensive cursor movement caused an apparent system freeze). Should I write this up?

I also have been having trouble booting with the 5.19 kernels. After the dracut-post processing, something runs through devices by UUID but NEVER completes so... NO BOOT. Should I write this up?

Otherwise, things are GREAT here (at the moment anyway)... SO. THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP!!!

Best regards and STAY SAFE!

George...

Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 2022-07-14 11:35, George R Goffe via test wrote:
> I experienced other problems during this "project", namely the command line length problem in the grub menu entry (extensive cursor movement caused an apparent system freeze). Should I write this up?

I've never seen that.  Certain systems can be very slow editing the 
command line in grub, it looks like it's slowly redrawing the entire 
screen for every movement or character.  You could start a new email 
thread and/or create a bugzilla.
> I also have been having trouble booting with the 5.19 kernels. After the dracut-post processing, something runs through devices by UUID but NEVER completes so... NO BOOT. Should I write this up?

What is "dracut-post processing"?  Start a new email thread and/or 
create a bugzilla.

Removing 5.19 kernel; dnf wants to remove 501 other packages too.

[Samuel Sieb]

On 2022-07-10 08:34, George R Goffe via test wrote:
> Thanks for responding to this plea for help... It's appreciated.
>
> As expected, all kernel packages would have been successful... EXCEPT for the kernel-headers package... 503 packages affected. Sigh.
>
> What are your thoughts?

Delete them all except the headers package.  You can leave that in, it's 
fine.