how did I brea yum?

[stan]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:06:05 -0700
Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I did try running "package-cleanup --orphans". rdesktop does not show
> up in the list. I'm not sure what this is supposed to show; there are
> about 30 packages in the output.

These are packages that come from repositories that you don't have
active anymore.

> 
> I thought about trying to erase the old package and install fresh, but
> the first thing that comes up is that there are other packages
> (kdenetwork) that depend on rdesktop. This already leads me to believe
> that proceeding this way will not work, since rdesktop not the entire
> problem but only one example, but for diagnostic sake I thought I
> could take one more step, and so tried "rpm -e rdesktop kdenetwork",
> and the output from that is another weird error:

There is a response to another thread on the list that deals well with
this. You can read it here.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-December/387966.html

The fact that your root fs was corrupted makes all of the above beside
the point.  Is it possible your hard disk is failing?