Re: Removing old kernels attempts to remove more than kernels...

2019-10-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 08:15:45PM +, George R Goffe via users wrote: > problem. I once tried this kind of thing and dnf came back with > 800 > (maybe 1400) packages to remove... including rpm and dnf et. al NOT > GOOD. It's good that dnf asks if it's ok to proceed. Whew. Bullet dodged. I'

Re: Removing old kernels attempts to remove more than kernels...

2019-10-25 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/24/19 1:15 PM, George R Goffe via users wrote: The "real" situation is that I have frozen this system's kernel at an older version because of problems with the newer kernels going crazy... reporting apparent stalling on cpus (excessive disablement maybe). I thought I had a broken cpu but

Re: Removing old kernels attempts to remove more than kernels...

2019-10-24 Thread George R Goffe via users
Stan, Thank you for your response... it's DEFINITELY appreciated. A little misunderstanding here though. I could have been more explicit in the description of my problem. I have seen this situation before (and written bug reports on it). This situation looks like a packaging(?) problem. I once

Removing old kernels attempts to remove more than kernels...

2019-10-24 Thread George R Goffe via users
Hi, I am attempting to remove old kernels from my system but "dnf erase " wants to remove much more than just that kernel package. I wrote a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com but have gotten nowhere. This is the bug URL: 1761024 – removing old kernels wants to remove more than kernel packages 1761024