I had something similar happen in the middle of a pre-upgrade so it was even worse. It took some time but I was able to sort it out. I don't recall the exact steps and they will vary anyway but here's the general steps I took.
Make a backup of the RPM db just in case. # tar czvf rpmdb.tar.gz /var/lib/rpm Rebuild RPM db # rpm --rebuilddb In these kinds of situations I find incomplete transactions to be of little use. Sometimes they can help you by seeing what it was TRYING to do. But generally yum is unable to complete the transaction. I've had cases where the interruption was in the middle of a package upgrade so both the old and new version were installed and this confuses yum to no end. I like to first make sure rpm and yum are happy. # rpm -qa rpm\* | sort # rpm -qa yum\* | sort Look for duplicates. In particular: rpm rpm-libs yum If you find any 'rpm -e <the older package>' The I like to make sure rpm and yum are updated. # yum update rpm\* yum\* -y Now try a full 'yum upgrade' see if it can solve the dependencies. If not, some things to try. Again look for duplicates. # rpm -qa | sort Try excluding things. # yum update --exclude foo\* If yum seems to be failing resolving some particular set of packages try to work out those alone. Maybe its a chicken/egg problem caused by the transaction being interrupted and you will have to use yumdownloader like you started to. # yum update foo\* Disable external repos. If you have Livna and rpmforge* enabled you can run into all kinds of problems. Disable them with '--disablerepos livna* --disablerepos rpmforge*' or edit /etc/yum.repos.d/. Once you get the bulk of the system updating again enable them one at a time. See if there's anything you can remove. I had MythTV installed and it was available in two external repos with conflicting package names and versions. I found it was just easier to 'yum erase mythtv\*' then use 'package-cleanup --orphans' to find the remaining mythtv packages and re-install later. I also like 'yum shell', it lets you handle some interesting scenarios that yum alone isn't smart enough to handle. <side note>One of my pet peves was that CentOS doesn't default to postfix but 'yum erase sendmail' causes failed deps. Ok so 'rpm -e sendmail --nodeps' I know in the end this is safe but I fundamentally dislike '--nodeps'. With 'yum shell' you can 'erase sendmail' then 'install postfix' then 'run' to run the transaction and because the erasure of sendmail and install of postfix are all in one transaction you don't get any dependency problems.</side note> I have run into scenarios when solving package problems where this helps also. Something like: > update .... "un resolved dependency something" > erase something-lib > install lib-something > run Where yum is unable to figure out a dep but me w/ a bit of google-fu can. HTH, -Alan On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Lance Grover <[email protected]>wrote: > Did you try rebuilding the rpm database? rpmdb --rebuilddb but look at all > the options first. Just a thought. > > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Barry Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A few weeks ago we had a brief power outage here in Orem, and the one > > computer in my house that's not on a UPS was in the middle of a big > > 'yum upgrade' Now lots of things are broken, and I can't get it > > fixed, and I don't really want to re-format and re-install (so > > Windowsy, ew), but that's about what I'm down to. > > > > 'yum-complete-transaction' would just hang and not do anything for > > hours, so I finally ran it with '--cleanup-only' > > > > No Qt programs work because of incompatible library issues, but the > > real problem is yum won't do anything because there are tons of > > duplicates, or so it thinks. If I try to 'package-cleanup > > --clean-dupes' it fails because it thinks it needs to remove systemd, > > yum, and the kernel. I've also done 'yum clean all' and tried to 'yum > > history rollback' the botched transaction, but that fails also. I > > don't remember the exact error. > > > > I tried to get yumdownloader to just download the latest rpms so I > > could install them with 'rpm -Uvh --force', but yumdownloader fails > > because of all the duplicates. > > > > I've exhausted my knowledge of yum/rpm and google. Anybody got any > > suggestions before backup, format, and re-install? > > > > Thanks, > > Barry > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > > Lance Grover > > http://www.groverfamily.org > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
