Yum Update

[Carel Lubbe]

I have had a similar problem and got around it by firstly running 
# yum clean all

And then I did a 
# yum makecache



On Thursday 02 July 2009 08:14:15 Phebe_Mertes at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
>   From:       Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu>
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>   To:         Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
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>   Date:       07/01/2009 01:45 PM
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>   Subject:    Yum Update
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> I had to break a yum update and now I see this everytime I try to run
> yum.  But if I run yum-complete-transaction it says there are 805
> packages scheduled to be removed.  This does not seem like something I
> want to do on my production server, so I am wondering if there is a
> way to clean the yum database so I don't get the warning below without
> completing the transaction??
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> "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider
> running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."
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> Troy Knabe
> knabe at 4j.lane.edu
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> yum clean all
>   Runs  yum clean packages  and yum clean headers, yum clean metadata and
> yum clean dbcache as above.
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> you can rebuild the rpm database
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> cd /var/lib
> tar -czf rpm.broken.`date +%Y%m%d-%R`.tgz rpm/
> cd rpm/
> rm -f __db.00*
> rpm --rebuilddb
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> Phebe Mertes
> 210-301-6271