Zavodsky, Daniel \(GE Money\) wrote : > Hello, > I thought I would share my experience with trying to update RHEL 5.1 > Server to 5.2. I am using Xen, RHEL cluster suite, CLVM and GFS. Running > "yum update" fails with an error that there are conflicting files in the > gfs2 packages. Then I uninstalled kmod-gfs2 and kmod-gfs2-xen and ran > yum update again. It stopped at "updating kmod-gfs" - I waited and > waited, but after 15 minutes of inactivity I pressed Ctrl+C and re-ran > yum update. On one machine this ended successfully, on the other one it > hung 2 more times. Now the system is updated and working, but I have to > repair the RPM database to get rid of duplicate entries - there appear > both old and new versions of many packages installed.
Ouch :-( Note, though, that yum-utils is now part of RHEL5, so you might want to install that and use package-cleanup. Hints : package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes package-cleanup --cleandupes It'll save you time cleaning up the mess for sure ;-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) - Linux kernel 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 Load : 3.92 1.67 0.83 _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
