Re: yum be killing me, this is totally strange... totally

David Timms wrote:

Ric Moore wrote:

[root@iam log]# rpm -qa |grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2869.fc6   <---- oh hell! Got TWO of
them installed!!
[root@iam log]# rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{ARCH} \\n" |
grep kmod-nvidia | sort
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 <---tried something I got off the web.
[root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 <---tried to erase it
error: package kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 is not installed  <-- no go

[root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 error: package kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-i686 is not installed <--still nogo

[root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6 <--good!
[root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6 <--huh?
error: package kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6 is not installed
[root@iam log]# rpm -qa |grep kmod-nvidia
kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2869.fc6 <--- still got one it seems
[root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6
error: package kmod-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.2.6.18_1.2868.fc6 is not installed
[root@iam log]# rpm -e kmod-nvidia
error: Failed dependencies:
        nvidia-kmod >= 1.0.9631 is needed by (installed)
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6.i386
[root@iam log]# rpm -e --nodeps kmod-nvidia
[root@iam log]#

I finally got the sucker, but I have no clue how I got two of 'em. I
noticed that Croquet was flickering HUGELY and I knew it tasked the hell
out of the gpu and that my nVidia driver had to be screwed. Then I found
this going on. Now I'm gonna install it again. It might have gotten
installed by some secret yum miracle when my kernel was updated, but it
still shouldn't have been installed twice by anything. I was and still

remain clueless. Ric

I wonder Seth's dupes-cli.py would find and manage to remove the duplicate ?

http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2006/12/04/re-wow/

I have had used this on various machines to find an remove duped packages. The situation that caused the duplicates seems to be an rpm uninstall script that failed / rpm stuck and nuked. This left packages mostly removed from disk but not from the rpm database, from what I understand.

You may be able to work out when things went wrong by perusing the /var/log/yum*.logs

Further to what Jacob mentions:

DaveT.