Ok - something truly bad appears to have happened. Yes, I will concede that cycling the system was a bad thing - but after two hours it should have returned from the update, still I was bad. There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site to get them, but then things continue to show up as missing. # rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: librpm-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386 librpmbuild-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386 librpmdb-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386 librpmio-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386 popt = 1.10.2 is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386 Clearly I have a pretty big hole here. Yes I have been spoiled by yum and rpm. Years ago I use to command line build, make and install everything - but dropped that habit in favor of the ease of yum. Are there are set of core files that seem reasonable to pull and install - It is beginning to seem that I may be ahead of the curve to download the new Centos 5.3 i386 images and install a fresh system on another hard drive and then move my mail, websites and other relevant files over. On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:40, Dan Roberts <dan at jlazyh.com> wrote: >> # rpm -Uvh --force yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch.rpm >> error: Failed dependencies: >> rpm >= 0:4.4.2 is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch >> rpm-python is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch >> yum-fastestmirror is needed by yum-3.2.19-18.el5.centos.noarch >> Either I am running this in the wrong location, or there is a lot of >> other stuff out of whack. > > It looks like your system is closer to 5.2 than 5.3. > > In that case, I suggest you try to install this RPM of yum instead: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1.noarch.rpm > > If it still asks about dependencies, you will have to download them > and install/upgrade them manually using RPM. > > Look for them here: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.2/os/i386/CentOS/ > And here: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.2/updates/i386/RPMS/ > > Once you get to install yum-3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1, yum should start > working again. > > When you got that done, you can try to use it to upgrade again, but > this time I advise you to do it on a screen session from an SSH > connection, and not through Webmin. And do not reboot the server in > the middle of the upgrade, since that is probably what started your > problems in this case. > > HTH, > Filipe > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos