Post fc20 to fc22, have a problem with yum/dnf database ...

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Hello friends:

I just finished successfully upgrading from Fedora-20 to Fedora-22. There are, of course, some post-install cleanup things that I now need to perform. For example, removing some remaining fc20 packages, including old kernel packages, etc.

My problem is that there is some inconsistency in the rpm and/or dnf databases that I don't know how to fix in order to get sudo dnf update ..., sudo dnf remove ... and other modification-based dnf commands to successfully complete.

More specifically, the problem is the below complaint from dnf about kmod-wl-4.1.6, yet I'm running kernel-4.2.3. Even if kmod-wl-4.2.3 existed in the updates repository (it doesn't because sudo dnf search kmod-wl shows 4.1.6 as the latest version), I probably wouldn't be able to upgrade to it because the error below is preventing me from doing any kind of modification command before fixing that first. So, for example, if I wanted to install a totally unrelated package via sudo dnf -y install someUnrelatedPackage it won't let me. It's kind of like a catch-22.

kernel-uname-r = 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64 is needed by (installed) kmod-wl-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64-6.30.223.248-9.fc22.x86_64

So I have to fix this complaint manually first. I already tried the things below with no success.

Any ideas/suggestions on how to fix this? See the following. And thanks in advance! :)

Problem details:

jdoe@lenovo$ uname -r
4.2.3-200.fc22.x86_64

jdoe@lenovo$ sudo rpm --rebuilddb
jdoe@lenovo$ sudo dnf clean all
jdoe@lenovo$ sudo dnf -y update

Last metadata expiration check performed 0:35:32 ago on Sun Oct 18 17:45:49 2015.
Dependencies resolved.
========================================================================================
 Package                           Arch      Version                   Repository  Size
========================================================================================
Upgrading:
 insync                            x86_64    1.3.2.36049-fc21          inSync      63 M
Removing:
 kernel                            x86_64    3.19.3-100.fc20           @System    145 M
 kernel-modules-extra              x86_64    3.19.3-100.fc20           @System    8.4 M
 kmod-wl-3.19.3-100.fc20.x86_64    x86_64    6.30.223.248-6.fc20.5     @System    7.2 M

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================
Upgrade  1 Package
Remove   3 Packages

Total size: 63 M
Downloading Packages:                    
Running transaction check

Error: transaction check vs depsolve:
kernel-uname-r = 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64 is needed by (installed) kmod-wl-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64-6.30.223.248-9.fc22.x86_64

To diagnose the problem, try running: 'rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest'.
You probably have corrupted RPMDB, running 'rpm --rebuilddb' might fix the issue.
The downloaded packages were saved in cache till the next successful transaction.
You can remove cached packages by executing 'dnf clean packages'.

jdoe@lenovo$ rpm -qa | grep kmod-wl-
kmod-wl-6.30.223.248-9.fc22.x86_64
kmod-wl-3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64-6.30.223.248-6.fc20.10.x86_64
kmod-wl-4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64-6.30.223.248-9.fc22.x86_64
akmod-wl-6.30.223.248-9.fc22.x86_64
kmod-wl-3.19.3-100.fc20.x86_64-6.30.223.248-6.fc20.5.x86_64
kmod-wl-3.19.5-100.fc20.x86_64-6.30.223.248-6.fc20.7.x86_64