yum trouble

[Dan Stromberg]

I have a bunch of FC3 systems.  Yesterday, I attempted to patch two of
them using "yum -y update".

The one that I had installed some time ago, and have run yum -y update on
many times, worked fine.

However, the one that I reinstalled with FC3 yesterday, failed to do yum
-y update correctly both yesterday, and today.  This system is failing to
patch itself, due to a lack, real or perceived, of a ton of missing
dependencies.

I tried with and without the atrpms repository configured in
/etc/yum.repos.d.  Neither worked.

The messages I'm getting look like:

Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC++.so.2 is needed by package k3b
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.0rc4) is needed by package pwlib
Error: Missing Dependency: libdv.so.4 is needed by package gstreamer-plugins
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package gnucash
Error: Missing Dependency: kdeartwork is needed by package kdeartwork-icons
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package alsa-utils
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package gimp
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package timidity++
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by package kdelibs
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.0rc4) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package libglade
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.0rc4) is needed by package kdemultimedia
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9.5) is needed by package alsa-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2(ALSA_0.9) is needed by package alsa-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package gnomemeeting
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package theora-tools
Error: Missing Dependency: libasound.so.2 is needed by package SDL
Error: missing dep: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages for pkg pyzor

...but this is only a small fraction of all the errors I'm getting.

rpm --rebuilddb doesn't appear to have helped matters.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Is there a fix or workaround?

Thanks!