On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 14:43 -0800, Robert Hanson wrote:

greetings

i am helping a sight impaired friend with an really old 96 meg ram computer that he uses for asterisk pbx

he loaded it... amazing for a blind person... and he wants me to secure it as best i can...

it had a failed (lost remote connection) yum update on centos 4.x and i am trying to finish...

what do i need to do to get past this part (below) now?

my apologies as i do not know how to specifically massage the machine or yum data areas to get out of here intact and finish the update...

my apologies. info below...

[root@server conf]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package php-pear.i386 0:4.3.9-3.9 set to be updated ---> Package php-gd.i386 0:4.3.9-3.9 set to be updated ---> Package mc.i386 1:4.6.1-0.8.1 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-devel.i586 0:2.6.9-22.0.1.EL set to be installed ---> Package php.i386 0:4.3.9-3.9 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.8 for package: php-mysql --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.8 is needed by package php-mysql

thanks and kind regards....

---- there's probably a more elegant way but I would...

rpm -qa|grep php

rpm -e (list of names from above)

yum install (list of names from above)

Craig

Robert Hanson wrote:

it had a failed (lost remote connection) yum update on centos 4.x and i am trying to finish...

--> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.8 for package: php-mysql --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.8 is needed by package php-mysql

Most likely it failed somewhere in the middle of updating php packages. Leaving you with inconsistent mix of old and new versions of PHP packages. What you might do is to update php by hand, and then finish the update process using yum.

First get list of currently installed PHP packages:

rpm -qa | grep php

Then download them manually from any CentOS mirror (or simply use the ones from installation media, they'd get updated when you run yum anyhow). If the php package itself is missing, add it (might be it was corrupted or something when update process broke). You'll probably need to force things a bit:

rpm -Uhv --force --nodeps --oldpackage list-of-rpm-files

Replace "list-of-rpm-files" with filenames of RPM packages you are about to reinstall. The "oldpackage" option is needed if you choose to "update" with packages from installation CD-ROM (since those might be the older version then some of allready installed packages).

When done, simply re-run "yum update" to finish.