Update Dependancies broken for the past few days.

[linuxnutster at videotron.ca]

On 09/22/2013 03:26 PM, linuxnutster at videotron.ca wrote:
> On 09/22/2013 02:53 PM, Scott Beamer wrote:
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> I'm running KDE  on Fedora 19 X64
>>
>> For the past 2-3 days I've had problems updating a number of packages
>> because of failed dependencies.
>>
>> For a while I figured it was a problem that would resolve itself once
>> the mirrors were updated, but so far, the problem persists.
>>
>> II've done 'yum clean all' numerous times to no avail.
>>
>> Is this a problem on my end or Fedora's end?
>>
>> Here is the the output of 'yum update':
>>
>>
>> $ sudo yum update
>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package kcm_colors.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package kcm_colors.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package kde-workspace.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package kde-workspace.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
>> --> Processing Dependency: libxcb-keysyms.so.1()(64bit) for package:
>> kde-workspace-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libxcb-image.so.0()(64bit) for package:
>> kde-workspace-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64
>> ---> Package kde-workspace-libs.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> --> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit) for package:
>> contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit) for
>> package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
>> ---> Package kde-workspace-libs.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package kdeartwork.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package kdeartwork.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package kdeartwork-kxs.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package kdeartwork-kxs.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package kdeartwork-screensavers.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be
>> updated
>> ---> Package kdeartwork-screensavers.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an
>> update
>> ---> Package kdm.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package kdm.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package kgreeter-plugins.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package kgreeter-plugins.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package konsole.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package konsole.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package konsole-part.x86_64 0:4.10.5-1.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package konsole-part.x86_64 0:4.11.1-1.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package libkworkspace.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package libkworkspace.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be an update
>> ---> Package mesa-libwayland-egl.x86_64 0:9.2-1.20130902.fc19 will be
>> updated
>> ---> Package mesa-libwayland-egl.x86_64 0:9.2-1.20130919.fc19 will be
>> an update
>> ---> Package plasma-scriptengine-python.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be
>> updated
>> ---> Package plasma-scriptengine-python.x86_64 0:4.11.1-2.fc19 will be
>> an update
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package kde-workspace-libs.x86_64 0:4.10.5-3.fc19 will be updated
>> --> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit) for package:
>> contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
>> --> Processing Dependency: libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit) for
>> package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64
>> ---> Package xcb-util-image.x86_64 0:0.3.9-2.fc19 will be installed
>> ---> Package xcb-util-keysyms.x86_64 0:0.3.9-2.fc19 will be installed
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> Error: Package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64 (@fedora)
>>             Requires: libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit)
>>             Removing: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.5-3.fc19.x86_64 (@updates)
>>                 libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit)
>>             Updated By: kde-workspace-libs-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64 (updates)
>>                 Not found
>>             Available: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.4-1.fc19.x86_64 (fedora)
>>                 libsolidcontrolifaces.so.4()(64bit)
>> Error: Package: contour-0.3-2.fc19.x86_64 (@fedora)
>>             Requires: libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit)
>>             Removing: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.5-3.fc19.x86_64 (@updates)
>>                 libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit)
>>             Updated By: kde-workspace-libs-4.11.1-2.fc19.x86_64 (updates)
>>                 Not found
>>             Available: kde-workspace-libs-4.10.4-1.fc19.x86_64 (fedora)
>>                 libsolidcontrol.so.4()(64bit)
>>   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>>   You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>
> You are not alone. It's been pretty bad for quite some time. I've been
> having to remove libdvdcss2 before updating and then putting it back.
> Updating to kernel 3.11.1-200 was a disaster on three of my machines,
> all using nvidia chipsets. I was rebooting to a black screen. I'm not
> sure how to troubleshoot this one since reinstalling kmod-nvidia and/or
> akmod-nvidia didn't do much. I'm closer to the newbie side of the road.
> One machine with an ATI chipset was ok after a fresh install and update
> to this latest kernel.

Update, I just launched yumex and checkmarking everything marked 
testing. A newer nvidia driver, which was not there yesterday, was 
available. It is installed and I'm using the new kernel...