[PlanetCCRMA] Kernel updates

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 20:41 -0700, Michael Gurevich wrote:
> I'm having the very same problem. Other than simply not installing these 2 
> kernels and associate kernel-module-alsa, I can't make make it work. Did 
> anyone come up with a solution?

Are you trying with apt-get or using synaptic?
-- Fernando

> On Sun, 7 May 2006, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 May 2006 00:11, Joe Curtis wrote:
> >> HI,
> >>
> >> My latest visit to Synaptic gave me the following error:
> >>
> >> APT system reports:
> >> E: Failed
> >> adding
> >> /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel#2.6.16-1.2080.13.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma_2.6.16-1.20
> >> 80.13.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma_i686.rpm to transaction (install) E: Failed adding
> >> /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel#2.6.16-1.2069%
> >> 5fFC4_2.6.16-1.2069%5fFC4_i686.rpm to transaction (install)
> >> E: Transaction set check failed
> >>
> >> I was quite keen to get a kernel module above 2.6.14 as 2.6.15 and above
> >> have an mppe module (needed for a pptp vpn connection) built into the
> >> kernel.
> >>
> >> any help would be much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Joe Curtis
> >
> > Hi Joe. The only time I had the "Transaction check failed" was with doing the
> > updates after installing FC3. An apt-get dist-upgrade brought up that error,
> > but doing an apt-get upgrade first resolved that problem. This is obviously
> > not your problem. I'm trying a download for the kernel you want at the
> > moment, but have selected in synaptic the kernel alsa module, which picks up
> > the kernel you want, and another one for some reason. Be carefull to check
> > the version of the kernel alsa modules, and which kernels they are going to
> > download with it. The 4 kernel alsa modules all appear the same on the
> > synaptic list. The first one on the list seems to match up with the kernel
> > you want, and is the one I'm downloading on dialup at the moment.
> >
> > It's also worth looking at /var/cache/apt/archives/partial . If you have lost
> > your Internet connection while updating, there may be a partially downloaded
> > package there. An apt-get dist-upgrade should pick that up, and complete the
> > download, thus clearing the way for future downloads.
> >
> > 70% done on kernel#2.6.16-1.2069_FC4, thats the extra one, and no idea why
> > thats being installed as well. Nigel.
> >