Ron Siven wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:07 -0400, Claude Jones wrote:
Herschel wrote:
| Claude Jones wrote:
| || I'm doing a reinstall and am now going through the update
|| process. It found a huge number of upgrades and was moving
|| through them, but now, on 933/969 it's been stalled for half
|| an hour on 'completing update for gimp'. Is this normal? If
|| not, what happens if I abort? If I choose to abort, is there a
|| preferred way? ||
My yum update also froze on a newly installed Fedora Core 3 system. Ctrl-C did not work -- after a kill -9, and another "yum update" I was told that everything was up to date. However, I was suspicious so I checked my rpm database and there were about 30 packages that had been upgraded but the older package had not been removed.
Fixing the problem involved an rpm -e on each of the older duplicate packages, and then a re-install of the newer package to restore several missing files that got deleted in the older package removal (seemed like mostly localization files). I used the yum cached rpm's for the reinstall, so at least the packages did not have to be downloaded again.
Cheers, Raman
