On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 12:37 -0400, Mike Williams wrote: > Hi there. On a system that recently had a fresh install of f13 I got > the following message from yum: > "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider > running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them." > > When I ran yum-complete-transactions another message appeared: > "There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one > The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run" > > Then after a very long list of packages it wants to remove including: > bash, yum-utils, and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau it says: > > Remove 159 Package(s) > > This sure seems like it will kill the system. > > uname -a > Linux mred.localdomain 2.6.33.5-112.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu May 27 > 02:56:20 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > Any suggestions would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Mike > == here is the whole list of what yum-complete-transaction wants to remove == > ============================================================ > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit > Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile > * fedora: mirror.seas.harvard.edu > * livna: rpm.livna.org > * rpmfusion-free: mirror.liberty.edu > * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.liberty.edu > * rpmfusion-nonfree: mirror.liberty.edu > * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.liberty.edu > * updates: mirror.seas.harvard.edu > Checking for new repos for mirrors > There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one > The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run > Package yelp-2.30.1-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version > Package gnome-settings-daemon-2.30.1-6.fc13.i686 already installed and > latest version > Package 1:control-center-2.30.1-2.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version > Package ibus-pinyin-1.3.8-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version > Package orca-2.30.1-1.fc13.i686 already installed and latest version > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package authconfig.i686 0:6.1.4-1.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package authconfig-gtk.i686 0:6.1.4-1.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package bash.i686 0:4.1.2-4.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package binutils.i686 0:2.20.51.0.2-15.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package binutils-devel.i686 0:2.20.51.0.2-15.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package boost.i686 0:1.41.0-7.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package boost-date-time.i686 0:1.41.0-7.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package boost-devel.i686 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Package xorg-x11-drv-synaptics.i686 0:1.2.2-3.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package yp-tools.i686 0:2.10-1.fc13 set to be erased > ---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.26-1.fc13 set to be erased > --> Finished Dependency Resolution ---- I think those are all older versions and you probably have duplicate packages installed - but there is an easy way to check... package-cleanup --dupes and it will probably list both the older and newer versions of those listed above and if so, 'yum-complete-transaction' would be exactly the right thing to do. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
