Package updater broke?

John Bowden john.bowden43 at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Jan 9 01:58:59 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 01:44 +0000, John Bowden wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 20:32 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > John Bowden wrote:
> > > Hi List.
> > > I have been off line for nearly two weeks due to my broad band
> > > connection failing. As soon as I got my connection up I went to the
> > > Software updater to check for any up dates and as expected it gave me a
> > > long list. First I selected all the packages but kept getting error
> > > messages complaining about unresolved dependencies. I then selected each
> > > package one at a time and get the same unresolved dependencies message
> > > for each package (I have tried the first 12 packages so far). I thought
> > > the package updater was supposed to sort out the dependencies
> > > automatically? Any ideas whats wrong?
> > > john
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > You might try to open a root terminal and run yum clean all. Maybe there 
> > are old headers left over since the time you last updated that it is 
> > using as reference to packages.
> > 
> > After cleaning up the headers, you might as well try running yum update 
> > from the CLI since you are already there. You will probably get more 
> > descriptive error outputs from the output of yum if it still fails.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > -- 
> > If you don't have time to do it right, where are you going to find the time
> > to do it over?
> > 
> After posting my last email I had a quick look at "man yum" and then
> tried yum update after su-ing. It did update most but failed on a lot of
> others. will try your clean all command
> 
> 
That seems to have worked much better. Just two error messages:-

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/i386/wine-docs-0.9.27-1.fc7.noarch.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Error: failure: wine-docs-0.9.27-1.fc7.noarch.rpm from
extras-development: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
[root at localhost led]# 

I'm guessing these are caused by these sites being down, hopefully
temporarily, so I will leave it for now and have another go later on
today when I get up. Thanks for your help
Regards John





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