Yum update seems to have stalled

[Ray Curtis]

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:50 -0700, Richard E Miles wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 00:08:50 -0400
> Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon May 2 2005 11:10 pm, Raman Gupta wrote:
> > >
> > > My yum update also froze on a newly installed Fedora Core 3 system.
> > > Ctrl-C did not work -- after a kill -9, and another "yum update" I was
> > > told that everything was up to date.  However, I was suspicious so I
> > > checked my rpm database and there were about 30 packages that had been
> > > upgraded but the older package had not been removed.
> > >
> > > Fixing the problem involved an rpm -e on each of the older duplicate
> > > packages, and then a re-install of the newer package to restore several
> > > missing files that got deleted in the older package removal (seemed like
> > > mostly localization files).  I used the yum cached rpm's for the
> > > reinstall, so at least the packages did not have to be downloaded again.
> > >
> > How do you check the rpm database and determine that packages have been 
> > upgraded and older ones not removed? I know how to delete old packages, but 
> > how do you find the ones that are in the state you discuss? 
> > -- 
> > Claude Jones
> > Bluemont, VA, USA
> 
> To check for duplicates do:
> rpm -qa | sort | less
> The duplicates will be grouped together in the list.
> 

You might also try:

rpm -q --qf "%{NAME}\n" -a | sort | uniq -d | xargs rpm -q


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