FC5 -- "yum -y upgrade" forever

[Paul Howarth]

robert alan bowman wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
> (NOTE : I hope this does not come twice !! mailcity cunningly hid my email 
> address!!!)
> 
> I am a complete fedora newbie. Last night I installed FC5 on a PC and the first 
> thing I did was to run the "yum -y upgrade" command (as per the Myth(tv)ology 
> instructions I was following) to get my machine uptodate.
> 
> Sadly, it went a little strange after doing the 520Mb download. Once it got to 
> applying the downloads, I left the machine over night. Well, come this morning 
> (eight hours later), it still had not finished and appeared to be doing nothing.
> 
> The entry with the #'s appearing next to it was "coreutils" (something like 
> 125/525). Well, I opened a new session in the same Konsole window just to log in 
> as root and nose around (not that I knew what I was looking for). When I decide! 
> d that was a bad idea, I accidently closed the session tab which was applying 
> the update!!! Arrrrgh!!!! Opps!!.
> 
> Now, when I try "yum -y upgrade" again, I get about six dependency error 
> messages. The first being related to openssh (I can't recall the others, I am 
> not at the machine now).
> 
> I tried using yum to install openssh and got the following :
> <snip>
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> core                                                                
> [1/3]
> updates                   ! ;           &nb sp;                             
> [2/3]
> extras                                                              
> [3/3]
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package openssh.i386 0:4.3p2-4.1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 for package:
> openssh-clients
> --> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 f! or package: openssh-server
> --> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 for package:
> openssh-askpass
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package openssh-clients.i386 0:4.3p2-4.1 set to be updated
> ---> Package openssh-server.i386 0:4.3p2-4.1 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 for package:
> openssh-askpass
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: openssh = 4.3p2-4 is needed by package
> openssh-askpass
> </snip>
> 
> What can I do please? Have I screwed things up completely? How, please, do I go 
> about resolving the dependency issue? Any tutorial links to help resolve this 
> problem?
> 
> Thanks for helping this complete novice.

Hopefully you still have the downloaded packages in 
/var/cache/yum/updates/packages

Give this a try:
# cd /var/cache/yum/updates/packages
# rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs openssh*

See if things look a bit better after doing that.

Paul.