[olug] yum/rpm question

[Noel Leistad]

I have a system showing 2 versions of lvm2 installed along w/ 1
lvm-cluster which "matches" version number w/ ONE of the installed LVM2 
packages.

HP Support tells me the only way to remove the outdated lvm2 is it
uninstall, but that breaks or looks like it'll break way more things
that I'm (presently) prepared to endure.

I noticed something similar w/ my lsof package, yum remove, yum install
fixed that, but there weren't 15 dependencies that got whacked in the
process.

I believe the outdated version is keeping my clmvd from running which is
preventing configuration of some new drives in an attached SAN.

Anyone have any suggestions. Am I barking up the wrong tree chasing lvm2
when I should be looking elsewhere on the SAN config??

at issue:

-- > lvm2.i386                                  2.02.84-6.el5_7.2  installed
-- > lvm2.i386                                  2.02.88-7.el5      installed
lvm2-cluster.i386                          2.02.88-7.el5      installed

I've considered rpm -e --no-deps lvm2 (?), if this is equivalent to
operating heavy machinery which impaired, somebody please stop me... :-)

Thanks!!

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