how did I brea yum?

[Richard Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Greg Woods <woods at ucar.edu> wrote:
> I have been using yum since it was first introduced and I've never seen
> this one before. I can't get past it and I can no longer do any updates.
> Any time I try to update anything, I get this error:
>
> Running Transaction
>  Updating       : rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
> 1/2
> Error unpacking rpm package rdesktop-1.6.0-9.fc14.i686
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/rdesktop;4cf66925:
> cpio: open
> rdesktop-1.6.0-7.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>
> Failed:
>  rdesktop.i686
> 0:1.6.0-9.fc14
>
> Complete!
>
> (The output looks normal up to that point).
>
> Anybody seen this before?
>
> This is an i686 machine (dual core Pentium 4) which I recently upgraded
> from 12->13->14, but I had done several updates before this started
> happening.

Maybe it's a corrupted RPM file? Try:

yum clean packages

and see if that helps.

Richard