yum upgrade stuck

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:16:35 -0600, jd1008 wrote:

> >>> --> Processing Conflict: mutter-3.16.2-1.fc22.x86_64 conflicts
> >>> gnome-shell < 3.16.1
> >>> ...
> >>> How do I resolve this?
> >> Hard to say, since gnome-shell should be in the upgrade set.  Your
> >> system is in a weird state.
> > Has any trouble-shooting been done to examine that "weird state"?
>
> Not sure how to proceed on that.

  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
  rpm -vv --rebuilddb
  yum check
  yum --debuglevel=255 update gnome-shell mutter

and the full output from that last command see what packages it's looking
at during the depsolving stage.

For comparison, "dnf update gnome-shell mutter", what does it do?
It's the default command with F22 instead of Yum.

For comparison, "pkcon update gnome-shell", what does it do?

> > Typically, one submits a couple of rpm/dnf/repoquery based queries
> > to examine what is installed and what is available. Has that been
> > done yet?
> Yes. No duplicates at all - but how would that help in understanding the
> cause of the hang?

Duplicates and dependency problems within the set of installed packages
can confuse the depsolvers.