KDE RPMs look strange -- duplicates?

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

I have trouble with the KDE solitaire program (shameful to admit).  It
keeps putting up an error box saying:
    We are sorry KbuildSycoca closed unexpectedly
and offering to let me submit a but.  Unfortunately the bug submission
procession produces similar messages.

And, in fact, invoking "$ kbuildsycoca4" (which appears to be the actual
program causing the trouble) fails, producing a similar error box.

Looking over the situation, I noticed a strange thing about the KDE RPMs
on the system.  There seem to be duplicates, namely:
        kdegames-libs-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
        kdegames-libs-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64

kdegraphics-libs-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
        kdegraphics-libs-4.3.0-1.fc11.x86_64

kdelibs-4.2.4-6.fc11.x86_64
        kdelibs-4.3.0-6.fc11.x86_64

kdelibs-common-4.2.4-6.fc11.x86_64
        kdelibs-common-4.3.0-6.fc11.x86_64

kdepimlibs-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
        kdepimlibs-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64

kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
        kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64

Is this normal, or is something out of line?  I run Gnome mostly, but
use some KDE applications.

Thanks - jon

[Rex Dieter]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I have trouble with the KDE solitaire program (shameful to admit).  It
> keeps putting up an error box saying:

...
>     kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
>     kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
>
> Is this normal, or is something out of line?  I run Gnome mostly, but
> use some KDE applications.

Not normal.  Perhaps you need to run:
yum-complete-transaction
and/or
package-cleanup --problems

-- Rex

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 01 September 2009 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Not normal.  Perhaps you need to run:
> yum-complete-transaction
> and/or
> package-cleanup --problems

Most likely the first step. I have seen this type of problems when the upgrade 
process is interrupted before the cleaning stage.

Run as root yum-complete-transaction, examine its output and act accordingly.
> -- Rex

[Jonathan Ryshpan]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 06:48 -0500, Rex Dieter and José Matos wrote: 
Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > I have trouble with the KDE solitaire program (shameful to admit).  It
> > keeps putting up an error box saying:
> > ...
> > Looking over the situation, I noticed a strange thing about the KDE RPMs
> > on the system.  There seem to be duplicates, namely:
> >         kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.2.4-1.fc11.x86_64
> >         kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
> >
> > Is this normal, or is something out of line?  I run Gnome mostly, but
> > use some KDE applications.
>
> Not normal.  Perhaps you need to run:
> yum-complete-transaction
> and/or
> package-cleanup --problems

Running yum-complete-transaction cleaned out the duplicates, but left
the system with a large number of empty files that should have had
something in them:

$ find /usr/lib* -type f -empty | sort | xargs ls -l
.... 
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 16:16 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kabc.so.4.3.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 16:16 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kde.so.4.3.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 16:16 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kmime.so.4.3.0
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 16:16 /usr/lib64/libgpgme++-pth.so.2.2.1
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 16:16 /usr/lib64/libgpgme++-pthread.so.2.2.1
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 16:16 /usr/lib64/libgpgme++.so.2.2.1
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Aug  4 17:33 /usr/lib64/libgwenviewlib.so.4.3.0
....

A little probing found the RPMs belonging to these files:

$ find /usr/lib* -type f -empty | xargs rpm -qf
....
kdepimlibs-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.3.0-2.fc11.x86_64
kdegraphics-libs-4.3.0-1.fc11.x86_64
....

Reinstalling all these packages with "$ yum reinstall ..." seems to have
put the system into a more or less sane state.
yum-complete-transaction
        and 
package-cleanup --problems
        don't shown any problems.

As a bonus, there are many fewer xruns from jackd.

Thanks to you both - jon