Kernel-4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64 No Longer Available

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8)

Issue

  • After updating some of our RHEL 8 machines to kernel-4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64 we went to install that same version on other machines, but now receive this error:

    # dnf install kernel-4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64
No match for argument: kernel-4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64
Error: Unable to find a match: kernel-4.18.0-304.el8.x86_64

  • Searching for "kernel" via the This content is not included.Red Hat Package Search tool returns a page where no 4.18.0-304.el8 is listed in the version drop-down list.

Resolution

Please use kernel-4.18.0-305 or greater.

Root Cause

RHEL 8's 4.18.0-304.el8 kernel was a RHEL 8.4 release candidate kernel that was erroneously placed in Red Hat's public repositories.  After recognizing the mistake, it was removed.

Because that kernel package was publicly available for a few weeks, there is a chance that customers may have used it before it was removed.

Diagnostic Steps

To see the currently running kernel version, execute uname -r.

To see all kernels installed on a RHEL system, please execute:

rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
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