yum appears to fail to complete updates if interrupted

[Kevin DeKorte]

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Gerry Tool wrote:
> I was performing a yum update in FC5 when the system froze.  On reboot,
> I executed yum update again and it updated a partial list of the
> packages that were listed in the first attempt.  However, one of the
> packages in the original list, but not the second list was firefox,
> updating to 1.5.0.6.  After the update, my firefox is still at 1.5.0.4. 
> I have tried several things to get it to update, all unsuccessfully,
> including yum clean all followed by another update attempt, and
> downloading the package and using rpm.  That fails due to dependencies
> which apparently were also in the interrupted update.
> 
> Is there some way to clear this up so the failed updates will proceed?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gerry
> 

Couple of things you can do... all as root

1. yum clean all

2. rpm -q firefox
	
3. if this gives you more than 1 result then do this

for f in `rpm -q firefox`;do rpm -e --nodeps $f; done


4. yum install firefox

Kevin
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