On 10/17/06, Johan Boshoff <jboshoff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, Something weirdd happened with my MySQL installation. I removed the whole mysql package with yum (yum remove mysql*), but it gives the following when trying to remove mysql-server: yum remove mysql-server Repository base is listed more than once in the configuration Setting up Remove Process Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package mysql-server.i386 0:4.1.20-1.FC4.1 set to be erased --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Removing: mysql-server i386 4.1.20-1.FC4.1 installed 22 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 1 Package(s) Total download size: 0 Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction error reading information on service mysqld: No such file or directory error: %preun(mysql-server-4.1.20-1.FC4.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 Removed: mysql-server.i386 0:4.1.20-1.FC4.1 Complete!
This seems to suggest that mysql-server did get removed. Do you have any evidence to the contrary? -- Fedora Core 5 and proud