Yum Problems on FC4 x86_64 (resolved)

Law Barstow lbarstow at cfl.rr.com
Wed Aug 3 11:05:14 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 06:34 -0400, Law Barstow wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:08 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 21:27 -0400, Law Barstow wrote:
> > > I'm having a problem getting yum to update all my packages.  System in
> > > is FC4 on x86_64, with all packages installed.  It's been a little bit
> > > since I've updated, so I've got 168 packages to update. For brevity's
> > > sake, here's a portion of the output from yum update (I can post it in
> > > its entirety if need be):
> (snip)
> > > Finished Transaction Test
> > > Transaction Check Error:   file /etc/gconf/schemas/clock.schemas from
> > > install of gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.2 conflicts with file from package
> > > gnome-panel-2.8.1-3
> > >   file /etc/gconf/schemas/fish.schemas from install of
> > > gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.2 conflicts with file from package
> > > gnome-panel-2.8.1-3
> > 
> > (snip)
> > 
> > >   file /usr/share/omf/gnome-panel/workspace-switcher-it.omf from install
> > > of gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.2 conflicts with file from package
> > > gnome-panel-2.8.1-3
> > > 
> > > 
> > > As for repositories, I am using only the base repositories + livna. In
> > > the past, I had installed only one or two packages from Dag, but then
> > > disabled the repo as soon as I had what I needed (related to playing
> > > MP3's).
> > > 
> > > Any help is appreciated.
> > 
> > What's the output of:
> > $ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' gnome-panel
> > 
> > I suspect that you've somehow got a gnome-panel-2.8.1-3.i386 package
> > installed on your system (which is strange since FC4 never supplied an
> > i386 version of this package, and the package supplied was
> > version-release 2.10.1-10).
> > 
> > If I'm right, try this:
> > # yum remove gnome-panel.i386
> > 
> > Paul.
> > -- 
> > Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> > 
> 
> 
> I think you got it!  The output of 
> $ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' gnome-panel
> 
> was 
> gnome-panel-2.8.1-3.i386
> gnome-panel-2.10.1-10.1.x86_64
> 
> 
> I did the yum remove and am now running yum update, with results to
> follow.
> 
> Thank you!

Just finished the update and it went without error.  Again, thank you
Paul.

Law
-- 
Law Barstow <lbarstow at cfl.rr.com>




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