yum update stuck with conflicting requests due to kmod-lve ?

[oceanwave]

On CL 9.8, I notice the following today; second server I checked has same issue today.

Do I need to manually fix this on each server?

I believe by default it keeps the latest 3 kernels and latest 3 kmod-lve versions.

yum update
Last metadata expiration check: 0:07:10 ago on Mon 06 Jul 2026 03:03:30
AM EDT.
Error:
Problem 1: package kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(__put_cred) = 0x1ea3167a, but none of the providers can be installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(__put_task_struct) = 0x25bbcf08, but none of the providers can be
installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(__tracepoint_sched_set_state_tp) = 0x2dc2a350, but none of the
providers can be installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(bpf_trace_run12) = 0x99a4ecec, but none of the providers can be
installed
.....
- conflicting requests
Problem 2: package kmod-lve-2.1-56.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(__put_cred) = 0x1ea3167a, but none of the providers can be installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-56.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(__put_task_struct) = 0x25bbcf08, but none of the providers can be
installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-56.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(__tracepoint_sched_set_state_tp) = 0x2dc2a350, but none of the
providers can be installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-56.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(bpf_trace_run12) = 0x99a4ecec, but none of the providers can be
installed
- package kmod-lve-2.1-56.el9.x86_64 from system requires
....
- package kmod-lve-2.1-56.el9.x86_64 from system requires
kernel(wake_up_process) = 0xf607df2f, but none of the providers can be
installed
- conflicting requests
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest'
to use not only best candidate packages)

[bogdan.sh]

Thanks for the output. Good news: the mirror side is fine now, makecache pulled everything cleanly. The problem now is local. You have three kmod-lve versions installed, and the two older ones (2.1-59 and 2.1-61.1) were built for kernels you no longer have. Each kmod-lve is tied to a specific kernel, so those two can't be satisfied, and dnf won't run any update until they're gone. Version 2.1-66 matches your current kernel, so keep that one.

Check what's installed and which is loaded:

rpm -qa 'kmod-lve*' | sort -V
cat /sys/module/kmodlve/version

Then remove the two old ones and update:

yum remove kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9 kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9
yum update

If yum remove complains about dependencies, drop them from the rpm database only (this won't touch the loaded module) and retry:

rpm -e --nodeps --justdb kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9.x86_64
yum update

Reboot onto the latest kernel afterwards. Same three commands work across your other servers.

[bogdan.sh]

This wasn't anything wrong on your servers - one of our mirrors had fallen behind and was serving stale metadata, so kmod-lve was being offered without the matching kernel symbols. We've already pulled that mirror out of rotation, so new updates will come from a healthy one.

You shouldn't need to touch each server by hand. Just clear the cached metadata and re-run the update:

yum clean all
yum makecache
yum update

If a box still complains after that, run rpm -qa 'kmod-lve*' | sort -V and uname -r and paste the output here - but in most cases the cache refresh is all it takes.

Cheers

[oceanwave]

Thanks very much, but that did not solve it.

# rpm -qa 'kmod-lve*' | sort -V
kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64
kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9.x86_64
kmod-lve-2.1-66.el9.x86_64

# uname -r
5.14.0-687.17.1.el9_8.x86_64

# yum clean all
355 files removed

# yum makecache
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Metadata cache created.

# yum update
Error:
  Problem 1: package kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9.x86_64 from @System requires
kernel(__put_cred) = 0x1ea3167a, but none of the providers can be installed
...
  - package kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9.x86_64 from @System requires
kernel(wake_up_process) = 0xf607df2f, but none of the providers can be
installed
   - conflicting requests
  Problem 2: package kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 from @System requires
kernel(__put_cred) = 0x1ea3167a, but none of the providers can be installed
...
  - conflicting requests
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest'
to use not only best candidate packages)​

[bogdan.sh]

Thanks for the output. Good news: the mirror side is fine now, makecache pulled everything cleanly. The problem now is local. You have three kmod-lve versions installed, and the two older ones (2.1-59 and 2.1-61.1) were built for kernels you no longer have. Each kmod-lve is tied to a specific kernel, so those two can't be satisfied, and dnf won't run any update until they're gone. Version 2.1-66 matches your current kernel, so keep that one.

Check what's installed and which is loaded:

rpm -qa 'kmod-lve*' | sort -V
cat /sys/module/kmodlve/version

Then remove the two old ones and update:

yum remove kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9 kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9
yum update

If yum remove complains about dependencies, drop them from the rpm database only (this won't touch the loaded module) and retry:

rpm -e --nodeps --justdb kmod-lve-2.1-59.el9.x86_64 kmod-lve-2.1-61.1.el9.x86_64
yum update

Reboot onto the latest kernel afterwards. Same three commands work across your other servers.

[oceanwave]

That worked. Thank you.

I guess the only drawback is that if you did need to reboot into a very old kernel, lve limits wouldn't load, but that would not be a major problem. And since there is a new kernel, I still have the one older kernel with its one older lve version in case for any reason I needed to boot into an older kernel, so no worry at all removing the old kmod-lve versions.

Thanks again.