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How to check if conversion is Ok after dnf updates fail #208

Closed digirave closed 4 months ago

digirave commented 6 months ago

Hello,

I converted a rhel 8.9 based server to almalinux. This server has nvidia and cuda drivers installed so kernel updates must be fixed to certain version. Therefore running sudo bash almalinux-deploy.sh

resulted in dnf installs/updates failing. I did not save the error message.

However, after dnf update which excludes the failed dnf rpms, I did a reboot. Afterwards running almalinux-deploy.sh results in package almalinux-release-8.9-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed

I am sure kernel packages are running from prior OS, but since the OS is ABI compatible would it be safe to use as is until I update the kernel(which should be long into the future)?

Thank you.

andrewlukoshko commented 4 months ago

Yes our kernels are 100% RHEL compatible so it's fine to use RHEL kernel until next update. The only issue with RHEL kernels is that Secure Boot mode will not work.