F11: Updating: caching problem with sqlite

[lanas]

Hello,

I've just installed F11 x86_64.  First thing I want to do after
install is to say 'yes' to apply all the updates I was notified about.
573 updates.  I'm looking forward at having an updated system, so I've
choosen 'yes' when KPackageKit popped up automatically.

Alas, problem.

'There was a (possibly temporary) problem ...'

Details

'Caching enabled but no local cache of /var/cache/yum/fedora/(lots of
digits)/filelists.sqlite.bz2'

If that package is causing trouble, I'd like to remove it from the
update process.  I don't use sqlite.  Things is, KPackageKit does not
show the packages in alphabetical order and there's no search method.
I will not scroll 573 items to find sqlite.

So how can the update be done and, what is this problem anyways ?

Thanks for all suggestions and help.  F11 looks nice as far as the
artwork is concerned.  Looks promising.

Cheers.

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On 08/31/2009 09:43 PM, lanas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just installed F11 x86_64.  First thing I want to do after
> install is to say 'yes' to apply all the updates I was notified about.
> 573 updates.  I'm looking forward at having an updated system, so I've
> choosen 'yes' when KPackageKit popped up automatically.
>
> Alas, problem.
>
> 'There was a (possibly temporary) problem ...'
>
> Details
>
> 'Caching enabled but no local cache of /var/cache/yum/fedora/(lots of
> digits)/filelists.sqlite.bz2'
>
> If that package is causing trouble, I'd like to remove it from the
> update process.  I don't use sqlite.  Things is, KPackageKit does not
> show the packages in alphabetical order and there's no search method.
> I will not scroll 573 items to find sqlite.
>
> So how can the update be done and, what is this problem anyways ?
>
> Thanks for all suggestions and help.  F11 looks nice as far as the
> artwork is concerned.  Looks promising.
>
> Cheers.

Try opening up a terminal and typing

sudo yum clean all;sudo yum update

Hope that helps.

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[Tim]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 21:47 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> Try opening up a terminal and typing
>
> sudo yum clean all;sudo yum update

Before ANYONE tries "yum clean all" try "yum clean metadata".

The first erases everything in the yum cache, including all packages
that you may have downloaded but not yet installed.  Downloading them
again will be a waste of your bandwidth, and of the mirrors.  Doing this
is *rarely* *needed*.

The second just removes the local data about packages, which will be
recreated with the next "yum update..." (or yum install, or various
other yum commands).  Usually, this is all that's needed to work around
a mirror or database problem.

And before anyone offers that "yum clean all" bad advice, offer "yum
clean metadata" advice, FIRST.

[lanas]

On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:45:06 +0930,
Tim  wrote :
> Before ANYONE tries "yum clean all" try "yum clean metadata".

Too late.  On the other hand I launched the commands yesterday evening
and this morning it was reporting something like:

593 updates, 1.1 GB
Is is OK [y/N] ?

So I guess it is time to get familiar with yum at the command line.
Especially since it seems the nice kyum is gone and what replaces it is
crippled (not even a alphanumeric search function through the packages
and does not even sort them alphabetically - I guess a sort would take
too much CPU !)

Makes me think,  kyum and kpdf.  Is there a 'Bring Back Kpdf' petition
around ?  I'd like to add my name to it.  Heck, I could even donate.  I
presume 'they' (KDE people) made such changes in the 4.x version that
every KDE-based app must be re-worked somehow to compile under the new
KDE/Qt kit.  kpdf is quite nice.  I've seen and used evince on a
'modern' laptop and it is not nice.