On 10/24/2009 05:09 PM Rohan Gilchrist wrote: > Hello, > > I thought I'd wait a little while before upgrading to 5.4, but am > running into the following errors: > > -> Finished Dependency Resolution > lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.32-1 is needed by > package lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base) > mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 from base has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 is needed > by package mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 (base) > lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems > --> Missing Dependency: device-mapper-event is needed by package > lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base) > Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper-multipath >= 0.4.7-9 is needed > by package mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-54.i386 (base) > Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper-event is needed by package > lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base) > Error: Missing Dependency: device-mapper >= 1.02.32-1 is needed by > package lvm2-2.02.46-8.el5.i386 (base) > > It would appear that these packages do exist, although earlier versions: > > # rpm -q device-mapper > device-mapper-1.02.13-1.el5 > > Any thoughts would be appreaicated. > > Regards, > > Rohan. I had some similar problems with my update, not with the same packages as you, but with yum claiming that dependencies needed to be installed-- dependencies which *were* already installed. All I did was a "yum reinstall ..." on those dependencies and that fixed it. In your case "yum reinstall device-mapper" etc. might fix it. Hope so. Let us know.