> For systems with Dell management software installed, yum updates are > broken because of an incompatibility in the libsmbios library (see below) > > If I remove the python-smbios, I can "fix" the problem in that updates now > work, but this breaks the Dell management software. If I try to reinstall > python-smbios, I run into the same incompatibility problem. > > Does anyone know how to fix or work around this problem? > > Thanks > Eve > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------------------- > YUM - security > -------------------- > Error: Package: python-smbios-2.2.27-4.12.1.el6.x86_64 (@dell-omsa-indep/6.2) > Requires: libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.12.1.el6 > Removing: libsmbios-2.2.27-4.12.1.el6.x86_64 (@dell-omsa-indep/6.2) > libsmbios = 2.2.27-4.12.1.el6 > Updated By: libsmbios-2.2.27-1908.9058.el6.x86_64 (dell-omsa-indep) > libsmbios = 2.2.27-1908.9058.el6 > You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem > You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
According to a post from the linux-poweredge mailing list [1], removal of those packages should be sufficient: yum remove dell_ie_rac python-smbios However, OMSA may not start afterwards, due to some changes in the NVMe monitoring. They now use a custom library, which segfaults on unsupported distributions. See [2] for more details. Of course, Scientific Linux and CentOS are not supported. [1] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2016-April/050490.html [2] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2016-April/050486.html Regards, Stefan