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A – Installation Troubleshooting
Version Number Conflict with opensm-* on RHEL5 Systems

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The older opensm-* packages that come with the RHEL5 distribution have a 

version number (3) that is greater the InfiniPath version number (2.2). This 
prevents the newer InfiniPath packages from being installed. You may see an 
error message similar to this when trying to install:

Preparing packages for installation...
package opensm-3.1.8-0.1.ofed20080130 (which is newer than
opensm-2.2-33596.832.3_1_10.rhel4_qlc) is already installed
package opensm-devel-3.1.8-0.1.ofed20080130 (which is newer than
opensm-devel-2.2-33596.832.3_1_10.rhel4_qlc) is already installed

These older packages should be manually uninstalled before installing the 
InfiniPath and OpenFabrics 2.2 packages. Run the following command (as root):

# rpm -qa opensm\* | xargs rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches

If a package was not installed, you may see a warning message similar to:

rpm: no packages given for erase

Install 

sysfsutils

 for your distribution before installing the OpenFabrics RPMs, 

as there are dependencies. If 

sysfsutils 

has not been installed, you will see 

error messages like this:

error: Failed dependencies:
libsysfs.so.1()(64bit) is needed by 
libipathverbs-2.2-28581.811.1_1.rhel4_psc.x86_64
 libsysfs.so.1()(64bit) is needed by 
libibverbs-utils-2.2-28581.811.1_1.rhel4_psc.x86_64 
/usr/include/sysfs/libsysfs.h is needed by 
libibverbs-devel-2.2-28581.811.1_1.rhel4_psc.x86_64

Check your distribution’s documentation for information about 

sysfsutils

.

There are two issues with OpenFabrics on RHEL4 and RHEL5 distributions. 
Some of the OpenFabrics RPMs (most notably 

ibutils

) have library 

dependencies that are distribution-specific. Additionally, the OpenFabrics 
packages contained in this release are newer than the ones that are distributed 
with RHEL4 U5 and RHEL5, and can cause conflicts during installation. An RPM, 

rhel4-ofed-fixup-2.2-xxx.rhel4_psc.noarch.rpm 

(where 

xxx

 is the build 

identifier), has been added to the RHEL tarball to work around the conflicts 
problem. It is contained in the OpenFabrics directory, and is installed when the 
other OpenFabrics RPMs are installed. Installation of this RPM will not affect FC6 
users.