Month: December 2014

Missing kernel-firmware 3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek on Oracle Linux 6.5

You might stumble over this trying to execute a yum update on an orcl linux 6.5:

[root@xyz ~]# yum update
...
Error: Package: kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64 (public_ol6_UEKR3_latest)
Requires: kernel-firmware = 3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek
Removing: kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.noarch (@anaconda-UEK3/6.5)
kernel-firmware = 3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek
Installed: kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-26.2.4.el6uek.noarch (@public_ol6_UEKR3_latest)
kernel-firmware = 3.8.13-26.2.4.el6uek
Installed: kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-35.1.2.el6uek.noarch (@public_ol6_UEKR3_latest)
kernel-firmware = 3.8.13-35.1.2.el6uek
...
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles –nodigest

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