On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. Hello Les and Thomas, OK. I got rid of the duplicate packages, ran yum-complete-transaction, and then rebooted. It is now stuck on the CentOS logo/splash screen, instead of booting into gnome. Any ideas? I can log into the box, most software is running. Gilbert ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************