On Sunday 03 January 2010 12:38:20 Martin Kho wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:14, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > On Saturday 02 January 2010 19:56:33 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > >> On Saturday 02 January 2010 20:43:08 Anne Wilson wrote: > > >> > On Saturday 02 January 2010 17:56:25 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > >> > > As someone suggested, it could be an issue with the mirrors. > > >> > > Try... in the Fedora and Fedora Updates repo to comment out the > > >> > > mirror urls and un-comment the base urls. Change the base urls > > >> > > from > > >> > > download.fedoraproject.org to download.redhat.fedora.com. yum > > >> > > clean all. yum update. > > >> > > > > >> > > I made a complaint a couple of years ago about this kind of > > >> > > syncing issue, but they told me that they really do not know what > > >> > > to do about it. > > >> > > > >> > Hi, Eli. Yes I have already tried the base urls. > > >> > > > >> > Anne > > >> > > >> Ooops Firstly I made a typo. Probable dyslexia in action. :) > > >> > > >> I meant to type download.fedora.redhat.com not > > > > > > download.redhat.fedora.com. > > > > > >> Make sure that the base urls read what I've indicated. The fedora and > > >> fedora updates repo files usually come with > > >> download.fedoraproject.org. Believe it or not, that base url can also > > >> be out of sync for quite sometime. What you could also try is to > > >> download the files manually and then rpm -Uvh them to get them > > >> installed. > > >> > > >> Eli > > > > > > Ane I hadn't read your message carefully enough anyway - sorry about > > > that. Sadly, it didn't cure the problem, though. You'll see from my > > > reply to Rex that I have uploaded the full output to > > > http://filebin.ca/pqyess/yus.txt > > > > First problem i can see in there is the failure to update > > kdebase-workspace-python-applet. This is because kdebindings last i > > checked wasn't building for F11 which means it can't be updated. I > > found removing kdebase-workspace-python-applet before updating allowed > > the update although obviously python based plasma applets will stop > > working... My guess without looking too closely is that since that > > package can't be updated other packages that depend on it and it > > depends on can't be updated either causing a huge list of errors. > > You can also try running: > > "yum --exclude=<trouble maker1> [--exclude=<trouble maker2>] --skip-broken > update" > > Where <trouble-maker> is e.g. 'kdebase-workspace-python-applet' > That sounded a good idea, but excluding kdebase-workspace-python-applet still left me with a huge list, and what felt like a gigantic task to find the culprit. I decided to try John's solution, removing kdebase-workspace-python- applet, and sure enough the update is now running. Not sure, but I suspect that means that I lose yawp, but it's the only widget that I'd really miss. It may even have been installed for when I tested various other widgets, for other people. ISTR that a superkaramba system monitor was python-based, for instance. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20100103/5279dd08/attachment.bin
