yum upgrade problems

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Nov 15 22:48:48 UTC 2004


On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Cory Riddell wrote:

> > yum remove gimp
> > 
> >  
> Same errors when I tried to remvoe gimp:
> Error: Requiring package gimp-print-plugin-4.2.6-11.i386 not in transaction
> set                                   nor in rpmdb
> Error: Requiring package xsane-gimp-0.92-10.i386 not in transaction set
> nor in rpmdb
> Error: Requiring package sane-frontends-1.0.11-4.i386 not in transaction set
> nor in rpmdb
> Error: Requiring package gimp-data-extras-1.2.0-11.noarch not in transaction
> set                                   nor in rpmdb


> I'm giving up. This system is officially hosed. This was a guinea pig machine
> for our office to see if FC2 could be upgraded to FC3 because it was a stock
> install- no packages outside of the initial install were added and the
> FC2->FC3 upgrade failed miserably. It's not a huge deal because FC2 is still
> working pretty good for us.

Before you give up - you could try a couple of things:

1. redo rpmdb
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb

2. verify the installed pacakges to be correct.

rpm -Va

3. Try removing gimp again

4. try up2date and see if it works

up2date-nox -u

5 bugzilla yum with this problem.

Satish




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