Yum messing up again

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:12:42 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:

> Right now, I'm at Chaos Manor, housesitting, and using my laptop.  (F16 
> with Xfce)  I tried to run a routine update with yumex, but got this error:
> 
> ERROR: Error in yum Transaction : [u'ERROR with transaction check vs 
> depsolve:', 'python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by (installed) 
> rhpl-0.221-2.i686', u'Please report this error at 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=yum']
> 
> I tried again, telling it to Skip Broken and got the same error.

Of course.

> What 
> makes it odd is two things: 1) I have no rawhide repos selected and 2) 
> the package rhpl wasn't listed in the updates.  As suggested, I've 
> reported this as Bug #834417.  I'm not at all sure what's going on here, 
> because my desktop updated Just Fine this morning.  I'm mentioning this 
> so that anybody else running across this can add to my bug instead of 
> opening a duplicate.

Package rhpl no longer exists but is still installed. Try "yum list extras"
and "yum check" (if you haven't tried that ever before).
Uninstall/remove packages that no longer exist.

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