Error: shim-x64 conflicts with kernel-container

Beremour

Dear OL7 maintainers!

"yum upgrade" on OL7 gives error for 2 days for me.

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--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Error: shim-x64 conflicts with kernel-container-3.10.0-0.0.0.2.el7.x86_64

 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

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Update:

Even Anaconda installer from boot DVD fails now during package installation.

Update 2:

It's all about EFI systems.

Avi Miller-Oracle

If you are not running inside a container, you should remove kernel-container completely, i.e. yum remove kernel-container.

Avi Miller-Oracle

I've reported this to QA for testing/validation too.

Todd Vierling-Oracle

Are you building system images inside Docker, or using custom install ISOs?

The kernel-container package is normally only used within Docker containers when a real kernel is not installed there, so it's actually good that this conflict is coming up -- a full, non-container system should not have it installed. But I'd like to figure out how you got it installed after all.

One thing you can do is run "yum erase kernel-container". You don't have to say Yes to it yet, but please paste what it outputs here, so we can see what it will try to remove. This way we might be able to figure out what put it there.

Todd Vierling-Oracle

As for the anaconda issue, that's something to address separately. When do you get an error in anaconda? This would suggest that something is being installed by it which mistakenly pulls in kernel-container.

Beremour

https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/comment/16791597#Comment_16791597

No-no, just full virtual machine under VMware and ISO from yum.oracle.com

https://community.oracle.com/tech/apps-infra/discussion/comment/16791598#Comment_16791598

Error occurs during installation process and stops with exact error mesage

User_DT13V

burn boot ol7 iso. boot from it with phy machine. set the installation source to the latest/x86_64/ . Select Server with GUI. Include the virt options also. Get error and it can't resolver it. One way around it is to select min. server for base env.

Avi Miller-Oracle

I can reproduce this using the steps above, i.e. only configuring ol7_latest in the installer. However, if you also configure ol7_UEKR6, then the package dependencies resolve themselves.

Still a bug that needs to be fixed, though.

User_DT13V

I'm seeing it post install still. I added the UEKR6 first and then tried again after adding in the addons and optional.

[[email protected] yum.repos.d]# yum repolist
repo id                                                                  repo name                                                                                                       status
ol7_UEKR6/x86_64                                                         Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 6 for Oracle Linux 7Server (x86_64)                                  282
ol7_addons/x86_64                                                        Oracle Linux 7Server Add ons (x86_64)                                                                             485
ol7_latest/x86_64                                                        Oracle Linux 7Server Latest (x86_64)                                                                            22263
ol7_optional_latest/x86_64                                               Oracle Linux 7Server Optional Latest (x86_64)                                                                   16080
ol7_oracle-linux-manager210_client/x86_64                                Oracle Linux Manager Client 2.10 for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)                                                       84
ol7_oracle-linux-manager210_server/x86_64                                Oracle Linux Manager Server 2.10 for Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64)                                                      366
repolist: 39560

[[email protected] yum.repos.d]# yum groupinstall "Server with GUI" | egrep error
There is no installed groups file.
Maybe run: yum groups mark convert (see man yum)
Warning: Group core does not have any packages to install.
--> Processing Dependency: libsamba-errors.so.1(SAMBA_ERRORS_1)(64bit) for package: libsmbclient-4.10.16-13.el7_9.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libsamba-errors.so.1()(64bit) for package: libsmbclient-4.10.16-13.el7_9.x86_64
Error: shim-x64 conflicts with kernel-container-3.10.0-0.0.0.2.el7.x86_64
[[email protected] yum.repos.d]#

Avi Miller-Oracle

Thanks for the additional info. You can run the following to exclude the package completely as a workaround until the release team remove it from yum.oracle.com:

yum-config-manager --save --setopt=ol7_latest.exclude=kernel-container

If you don't have yum-config-manager, just add exclude = kernel-container to the [ol7_latest] repo stanza in the /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol7.repo configuration file.

Beremour

And what about installation process ?

Sorry for no screens in starting post.. Will post now

Todd Vierling-Oracle

Thanks. We're going to get kernel-container removed from yum since it isn't supposed to be there. Once that's done, we'll test the above to make sure it doesn't mistakenly pull that package in.