I used the command “sudo yum update” to later check for the availability of libfdt-devel used by qemu and ended with an update failure due to alsa-sof-firmware-2024.
The reported error is this:
Error: Transaction test error:
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/da7219-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/dmic-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/hda-generic-1ep-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/hda-generic-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/max98357a-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/max98373-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/max98927-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/nau8825-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/rt274-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/rt286-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/rt298-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/rt5514-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/rt5663-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
file /usr/lib/firmware/intel/avs/ssm4567-tplg.bin.xz from install of linux-firmware-20240716-145.el9.noarch conflicts with file from package alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-5.el9.noarch
So far I have tried to do ‘sudo yum --refresh update’ and ‘sudo yum --allowerase update’ and neither solves it.
I am running on a Beelink with an N100 processor and use CentOS because it was the first Linux I tried that recognized the Bluetooth device in this little cube.
Any idea how to get around this and get the system up to date?
I ran into the same issue today when running ‘sudo dnf update’ (except the Alsa-sof and Linux-firmware packages were on on opposite sides of the “and” in the error message)
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor and CentOS Stream 9
Unsure why I’m getting Intel errors when I have a AMD chip
The culprit is the package called linux-firmware. In Centos stream 9, I can exclude linux-firmware from the installation by issuing:
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum -x linux-firmware update -y
This trick let me finish the installation minus linux-firmware. I think it should work on Fedora as well.
@atang it partially helps. The command installs all updates but the linux-firmware which is good. It also leaves the linux-firmware to be updated on the next update which may be an issue again.
I think it should be resolved so that it is a more permanent solution. I do appreciate being able to update most though
I have the same issue installing CentOS Stream 9 from scratch in a KVM virtual machine using their DVD ISO from 29th July 2024 (CentOS-Stream-9-20240729.0-x86_64-dvd1.iso). The “Server with GUI” software group installs, but the installation fails and quits with the “Workstation” group.
Presumably a temporary repository issue, but with bad timing for the ISO builds.
We just have to wait for these packages to be in the production repos, as they are already in composes.
alsa-sof-firmware-2024.03-6 has the bug fixed, and I tested it myself on AlmaLinux 9 (with Stream’s linux-firmware too, and it did cause a conflict with release 5).
Probably 3 months if everything goes wrong. I’d suggest just installing that RPM I linked (it’s officially from CentOS, and signed by them), and then if release 7 comes out or a newer version, that’ll get installed. This I think has been done for legal reasons.
I just remove alsa-sof-firmware and linux-firmware was installed fine. If you don’t need the sound card API in the linux kernel, you probably don’t need alsa-sof-firmware. Do:
yum remove alsa-sof-firmware
