[Fedora] Re: yum crashes

[Walter Cazzola]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:41:15 -0430, Patrick wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 23:02 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote:
>>> today I got a machine fail (a blackout) during a yum update and after

> Have you tried running "yum-complete-transaction" yet?

yes I did (it was suggested by yum itself) but this didn't solve the
issue

>>> that all my attempt to update my machine end with the following error:
>> [...]
>>
>> What you're seeing is a yum error (actually a repo out of synch in all
>> likelihood), not a yum crash. Announcing that yum crashes is a serious
>> issue. A repo inconsistency is liable to go away on its own.

> Where does this "repo out of synch" theory come from?
> When an x86_64 multiarch repo is updated, its metadata contains matching
> (!) pairs of x86_64 and i686 packages [1]. That is, same version and
> release, because the packages are built from the same src.rpm, and the
> multiarch repo compose tool fetches the packages from the same build. A
> repo that is "out of sync" either doesn't offer the latest metadata at all
> or doesn't carry all packages yet - 404 Not Found errors. But Yum would
> not proceed with installing updates if packages referred to in the
> metadata are not found. The only case when a multiarch package like
> postgresql-libs would differ in version-release between x86_64 and i686
> would be if the repo compose tool contained a bug (or the packages were
> changed in a way they would not be selected for multiarch anymore).

well, I don't know if it is a repo out of synch or my local db broken
but my problem still persist even if it is limited to the i686 version
of postgresql-libs and I can live with it. And probably in the next few
days a new version of the package will be distributed that solves my
problem.

Walter

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