Comment # 41 on bug 1175342 from Benjamin Zeller

You are aware that those answers won't help fixing that bug right?

If literally nothing has changed for you then you still must have the old
libzypp version without the fix. 

Without new informations I can only close that bug as worksforme, because it
does work perfectly in my testcases. Otherwise I still need the zypper logfile
for that purge-kernels run that did not work. 

Alternatively you can also upload a solver testcase which would give me the
option to exactly duplicate whats happening for you locally. You can generate
one with "zypper up --debug-solver" , the exact command you use does not matter
much, the important part here is that it generates the system informations.