[CentOS] Yum update crashed, now I have lots of missing deps

[Remco Barendse]

Grrrrrr, I solved the problem below, it turned out that there were all 
sirts of packages installed twice now (new and old version or even same 
version no.)

Now I am re-runing yum update and again crash:
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating: gcc 100 % done 1/194
Updating: apr-util-devel 100 % done 2/194
Updating: gcc4 100 % done 3/194
Updating: xorg-x11-devel 100 % done 4/194
Updating: gcc-c++ 100 % done 5/194
Updating: gcc4-c++ 100 % done 6/194
Updating: libmudflap-devel 100 % done 7/194
Updating: gcc4-gfortran 100 % done 8/194
Updating: subversion-devel 100 % done 9/194
Updating: httpd-devel 100 % done 10/194
Updating: kernel-doc 100 % done 11/194
Updating: gcc-objc 100 % done 12/194
Updating: gcc-gnat 100 % done 13/194
Updating: gcc-java 100 % done 14/194
Updating: gcc-g77 100 % done 15/194
Updating: xorg-x11-Xnest 100 % done 16/194
Updating: gdm 100 % done 17/194
Updating: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU 100 % done 18/194
Updating: anaconda 100 % done 19/194
Updating: evolution-connector 100 % done 20/194
Updating: mysql-server 100 % done 21/194
Updating: iiimf-gtk 100 % done 22/194
Updating: pam-devel 100 % done 23/194
Updating: pdksh 100 % done 24/194
Updating: iiimf-le-canna 100 % done 25/194
Updating: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs 100 % done 26/194
Updating: iiimf-gtk 100 % done 27/194
Updating: libwnck 100 % done 28/194
Updating: createrepo 100 % done 29/194
Updating: urw-fonts 100 % done 30/194
Updating: gtk2-engines 100 % done 31/194
Updating: nss_ldap 100 % done 32/194
Updating: irb 100 % done 33/194
Updating: xorg-x11-Xvfb 100 % done 34/194
Updating: gnome-desktop-devel 100 % done 35/194
Updating: ruby-tcltk 100 % done 36/194
Updating: zsh 100 % done 37/194
Updating: evolution-webcal 100 % done 38/194
Updating: anaconda-runtime 100 % done 39/194
Updating: system-config-printer-gui 100 % done 40/194
Updating: kernel-smp-devel 100 % done 41/194
Updating: autofs 100 % done 42/194
Updating: iiimf-le-sun-thai 100 % done 43/194
Updating: gnome-terminal 100 % done 44/194
Updating: slocate 100 % done 45/194
Updating: up2date-gnome 100 % done 46/194
Updating: dbus-x11 100 % done 47/194
Updating: samba-client 100 % done 48/194
Updating: nss_ldap 100 % done 49/194
Installing: kernel-devel 28 % done 50/194


and then nothing........

Why is this *&^@*&^$(&*^!!! update not behaving but crashing the box? I 
never see these problems on my x86 boxes??



On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Remco Barendse wrote:

> During yum update my box crashed (I frequently have this on Centos 4 x86_64 
> boxes)
>
> ---> Package kdebase.x86_64 6:3.3.1-5.8 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: system-config-printer = 0.6.116-1.centos4.1 for 
> package: system-config-printer-gui
> --> Processing Dependency: glibc-devel = 2.3.4-2.9 for package: nptl-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 for package: gcc-objc
> --> Processing Dependency: openssh = 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4 for package: 
> openssh-clients
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 for package: gcc-gnat
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc4 = 4.0.0-0.14.EL4 for package: 
> libmudflap-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: kdebase = 6:3.3.1-5.5 for package: kdebase-devel
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 for package: gcc-g77
> --> Processing Dependency: openoffice.org = 1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 for package: 
> openoffice.org-i18n
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc4 = 4.0.0-0.14.EL4 for package: gcc4-c++
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 for package: gcc-c++
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc4 = 4.0.0-0.14.EL4 for package: gcc4-gfortran
> --> Processing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 for package: gcc-java
> --> Processing Conflict: initscripts conflicts diskdumputils < 1.1.0
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: system-config-printer = 0.6.116-1.centos4.1 is 
> needed by package system-config-printer-gui
> Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-devel = 2.3.4-2.9 is needed by package 
> nptl-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 is needed by package gcc-objc
> Error: Missing Dependency: openssh = 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.4 is needed by package 
> openssh-clients
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 is needed by package gcc-gnat
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc4 = 4.0.0-0.14.EL4 is needed by package 
> libmudflap-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: kdebase = 6:3.3.1-5.5 is needed by package 
> kdebase-devel
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 is needed by package gcc-g77
> Error: Missing Dependency: openoffice.org = 1.1.2-24.6.0.EL4 is needed by 
> package openoffice.org-i18n
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc4 = 4.0.0-0.14.EL4 is needed by package 
> gcc4-c++
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 is needed by package gcc-c++
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc4 = 4.0.0-0.14.EL4 is needed by package 
> gcc4-gfortran
> Error: Missing Dependency: gcc = 3.4.3-22.1 is needed by package gcc-java
> Error: initscripts conflicts with diskdumputils < 1.1.0
>
>
> I already tried rpm --rebuilddb
>
> Anyone have an idea how to fix this or how to reverse the update?
>
> Thanks a 1,000,000 :)
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