On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I had an issue with one of three servers upgrading from 6.4 to 6.5. It did > not have the CR repo enabled. > > It failed dueing install, but I didn't catch the error (bad, bad, I know). > OK, so it told me to run yum-complete transaction. After going through and > figuring out what it had to do, it stops with this error: > > (etc, etc...) > Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected > You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem Is that error from running yum-complete-transaction? If not, install yum-utils and run yum-complete-transaction. If it is, I think it means that your rpmdb shows 2 versions of yum installed and it is refusing to fix it. I'd try a 'yum update yum' to make sure you really have the latest, then 'rpm -q yum' to see if it shows 2 versions installed, then 'yum remove' the full package-version name of the older one. And if yum still refuses, try 'rpm -e' with the older package version. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com