Yum update seems to have stalled
Raman Gupta
rocketraman at fastmail.fm
Tue May 3 03:10:36 UTC 2005
Ron Siven wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:07 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
>
>
>>Herschel wrote:
>>| Claude Jones wrote:
>>|
>>|| I'm doing a reinstall and am now going through the update
>>|| process. It found a huge number of upgrades and was moving
>>|| through them, but now, on 933/969 it's been stalled for half
>>|| an hour on 'completing update for gimp'. Is this normal? If
>>|| not, what happens if I abort? If I choose to abort, is there a
>>|| preferred way?
>>||
>>
My yum update also froze on a newly installed Fedora Core 3 system.
Ctrl-C did not work -- after a kill -9, and another "yum update" I was
told that everything was up to date. However, I was suspicious so I
checked my rpm database and there were about 30 packages that had been
upgraded but the older package had not been removed.
Fixing the problem involved an rpm -e on each of the older duplicate
packages, and then a re-install of the newer package to restore several
missing files that got deleted in the older package removal (seemed like
mostly localization files). I used the yum cached rpm's for the
reinstall, so at least the packages did not have to be downloaded again.
Cheers,
Raman
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