Unfinished transactions remaining:

[Timothy Murphy]

Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 05/21/2012 04:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I ^C-ed to stop the process,
>> as I wasn't sure whether I would be asked for my permission
>> before the packages were removed.
> 
> Unless you've used -y you will always be asked to confirm before
> anything is installed, updated or removed.  Simply run
> yum-complete-transaction and tell it No.

I tried that, but yum-complete-transaction does not complete,
apparently because among the 300+ packages it wants to remove
is yum itself:
-------------------------------
Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
** Found 4 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64 is a duplicate with bash-4.1.2-8.el6.centos.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-
common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of config(glibc-
common) = ('0', '2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12')
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc = ('0', 
'2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12')
-------------------------------

I tried running "yum-complete-transaction --skip-broken"
and "yum-complete-transaction --exclude=yum" but neither worked.

I've run "rpm --rebuilddb", but this did not improve matters,
though the error message is slightly different:
-------------------------------
Error: Protected multilib versions: glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 != 
glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686
** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64 is a duplicate with bash-4.1.2-8.el6.centos.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc-
common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc = ('0', 
'2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12')
-------------------------------

As ever, any suggestions gratefully received.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
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