Hi, As far as I remember kernel-module-firewire was never included in official SL. Maybe I put it once on a LiveCD.
Do you need firewire support on this hardware? If not I would just uninstall all firewire related rpms. rpm -qa | grep firewire rpm -e .. .. .. Afterwards, yum update should work. If you need firewire support. You still find the kernel-module-firewire in the PSI repository http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/4/psi/current/ However, the repository lags behind the kernel version of SL. I don't see kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm there. I'm no longer responsible for this repository. But you may want to ask Marc Gasser from PSI for the latest kernel-module-firewire. Cheers, Urs FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: > Hello, > > after updating an SL4.5 laptop with the new kernel 2.6.9-78.0.17.EL > I could not install the > kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm > I just rebuild. > > The messages are: > > [r...@rabeson i686]# yum localinstall > kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm > Loading "versionfix" plugin > Loading "kernel-module" plugin > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up Local Package Process > Examining kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm: > kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL - 1286-5.sl4.psi.i686 > Marking kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL-1286-5.sl4.psi.i686.rpm to be > installed > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.i686 0:1286-5.sl4.psi > set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > Beginning Kernel Module Plugin > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? > yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) > File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 138, in main > (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() > File "__init__.py", line 344, in buildTransaction > File "plugins.py", line 159, in run > File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py", line 145, in postresolve_hook > kmdl_install(conduit, kernels, kmdls) > File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/kernel-module.py", line 125, in kmdl_install > for pkg in conduit.getPackages(): > File "plugins.py", line 469, in getPackages > AttributeError: YumBaseCli instance has no attribute 'pkgSack' > > Thanks for your help. > -- Urs Beyerle Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH Zurich Universitätstrasse 16 (CHN N 16.2) 8092 Zürich, Switzerland Tel +41 44 632 82 55 Fax +41 44 632 13 11 Web http://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/beyerleu