yum-complete-transaction wants to remove 159 packages

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 12:37 -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> Hi there.  On a system that recently had a fresh install of f13 I got
> the following message from yum:
> "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider
> running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."
> 
> When I ran yum-complete-transactions another message appeared:
> "There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
> The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run"
> 
> Then after a very long list of packages it wants to remove including:
> bash, yum-utils, and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau it says:
> 
> Remove      159 Package(s)
> 
> This sure seems like it will kill the system.
> 
> uname -a
> Linux mred.localdomain 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu May 27
> 02:56:20 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> == here is the whole list of what yum-complete-transaction wants to remove ==
> ============================================================
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>  * fedora: mirror.seas.harvard.edu
>  * livna: rpm.livna.org
>  * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu
>  * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu
>  * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu
>  * updates: mirror.seas.harvard.edu
> Checking for new repos for mirrors
> There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one
> The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run
> Package yelp-2.30.1-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
> Package gnome-settings-daemon-2.30.1-6.fc13.i686 already installed and
> latest version
> Package 1:control-center-2.30.1-2.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
> Package ibus-pinyin-1.3.8-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
> Package orca-2.30.1-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version
> --> Running transaction check
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> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
----
I think those are all older versions and you probably have duplicate
packages installed - but there is an easy way to check...

package-cleanup --dupes

and it will probably list both the older and newer versions of those
listed above and if so, 'yum-complete-transaction' would be exactly the
right thing to do.

Craig


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