On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 11:41 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I am having problems with a yum update of a laptop. The user may have > accidentally shutdown in the middle of an automatic yum update leaving > things incomplete. > > The problem involves the update of elfutils > > Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils > 0.123-1.fc6 > Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils-libs > 0.123-1.fc6 > > I may have made things worse in that while trying to fix this problem I > removed the following: > > Jan 27 10:35:58 Erased: rpm-build > Jan 27 10:36:01 Erased: elfutils > Jan 27 11:09:29 Erased: elfutils-libs > Jan 27 11:09:50 Erased: elfutils-libs > Jan 27 11:12:54 Erased: elfutils-libelf-devel > Jan 27 11:12:54 Erased: rpm-devel > > When I tried to remove elfutils-libelf there were so many other > dependencies that would have also been removed, I aborted the removal. > > Now when I try to install elfutils I get the following: > > [root@Re02 share]# yum install elfutils > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up Install Process > Setting up repositories > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Parsing package install arguments > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Downloading header for elfutils to pack into transaction set. > elfutils-0.125-1.fc6.i386 100% |=========================| 15 kB > 00:00 > ---> Package elfutils.i386 0:0.125-1.fc6 set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.122) for package: > elfutils > --> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1 for package: elfutils > --> Processing Dependency: elfutils-libs = 0.125-1.fc6 for package: > elfutils > --> Processing Conflict: elfutils-libelf conflicts elfutils > > 0.123-1.fc6 > --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Downloading header for elfutils-libs to pack into transaction set. > elfutils-libs-0.125-1.fc6 100% |=========================| 17 kB > 00:00 > ---> Package elfutils-libs.i386 0:0.125-1.fc6 set to be updated > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Conflict: elfutils-libelf conflicts elfutils-libs > > 0.123-1.fc6 > --> Processing Conflict: elfutils-libelf conflicts elfutils > > 0.123-1.fc6 > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils > 0.123-1.fc6 > Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils-libs > 0.123-1.fc6 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > If any of you can give me a hand I would appreciate your help. ---- assuming that this is the only place where duplicate packages exist... rpm -e elfutils-0.123-1 elfutils-libs-0.123-1 Craig
