Greg Woods <woods <at> ucar.edu> writes: > ... Just a few quick suggestions. Check any pending config files updates (.rpmsave, .rpmnew, etc): # find /etc -iname "*.rpm*" Check anything unusual in plug-ins, protections, etc. This will be shown in the top 2-4 lines of e.g. $ yum list rdesktop Turn on debugging or error levels when executing failing commands. $ man yum ... -d [number] Sets the debugging level to [number] - turns up or down the amount of things that are printed. Practical range: 0 - 10 Configuration Option: debuglevel -e [number] Sets the error level to [number] Practical range 0 - 10. 0 means print only critical errors about which you must be told. 1 means print all errors, even ones that are not overly important. 1+ means print more errors (if any) -e 0 is good for cron jobs. Configuration Option: errorlevel ... Give this a shot: $ man yum ... update ... If the --obsoletes flag is present yum will include package obsoletes in its calculations - this makes it better for distro-version changes, for example: upgrading from somelinux 8.0 to somelinux 9. ... --obsoletes This option only has affect for an update, it enables yum's obsoletes processing logic. For more information see the update command above. Configuration Option: obsoletes ... Please verify format of this entry (I am on a different OS right now ...). # yum --help # yum --obsoletes update You can even run the above with this option: --noplugins Run with all plugins disabled. Configuration Option: plugins # yum --noplugins --obsoletes update JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines