[CentOS] 4.4 yum update problem

[Guillermo Garron]

On 9/1/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 17:01 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
>
> > > On one of my machines yum hung up while installing the updates and
> > > could not be interrupted or killed.  I rebooted the machine the next
> > > day, but now a 'yum update' reports:
> > >
> > > Error: Missing Dependency: openssh = 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12 is needed by
> > > package openssh-askpass-gnome
> > > and
> > > Error: Missing Dependency: rpm = 4.3.3-13_nonptl is needed by package
> > > rpm-build
> > >
> > > even though rpm -q says those version are installed:
> > >
> > > #rpm -q rpm openssh
> > > rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl
> > > openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.12
> > >
> > > Now what?
> > Maybe you can try
> > yum clean all
> > so you can start a complete process again.
>
> I already tried that with no luck.  I even did a
> yum update up2date
> up2date -u
> and it complains that it needs the same packages but that they are
> already installed...
>
> It looks like I have duplicates, so maybe an rpm -q to find the
> versions and rpm -e to remove one will fix things so the rest of
> the updates will work.  Now how do I tell if there are any other
> duplicates besides the ones that happened to be noticed by the
> dependency checks?
can you try a
$ rpm -qa > file.txt
after that work on that file to find duplicates.?