On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.co.uk> wrote: > I am just applying the latest C6 updates to a couple of KVM Linodes. > It appears that the latest update of util-linux-ng has added a new > dependency on the kernel package. > > On these VMs, the kernel package is not normally installed, and the VM > runs a host-supplied kernel. But now, a "yum update" wants to install for > dependencies kernel, kernel-firmware and grubby, none of which should be > necessary in this environment. > > I have allowed it on one Linode and rebooted it. All seems ok and it is > still running the host-supplied kernel, but it still grates that an > unused kernel should have been required to be installed. > > Is this an error in util-linux-ng, or a real new requirement? > > Cheers > Tony > If you have access to it see: Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2016:2748-1 Corresponding CentOS announcement here: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-November/022148.html Verify that in your current kernel you don't incur in this bugzilla (I think you are not using rlogin...): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1335670 HIH, Gianluca