yum appears to fail to complete updates if interrupted

[Gerry Tool]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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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
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> 3. if this gives you more than 1 result then do this
[root at gstpc-fc4 openvpn]# yum clean all
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Cleaning up Everything
0 headers removed
0 packages removed
15 metadata files removed
0 cache files removed
5 cache files removed
[root at gstpc-fc4 openvpn]# rpm -q firefox
firefox-1.5.0.4-1.2.fc5

Gerry