Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/21/2012 04:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I ^C-ed to stop the process, >> as I wasn't sure whether I would be asked for my permission >> before the packages were removed. > > Unless you've used -y you will always be asked to confirm before > anything is installed, updated or removed. Simply run > yum-complete-transaction and tell it No. I tried that, but yum-complete-transaction does not complete, apparently because among the 300+ packages it wants to remove is yum itself: ------------------------------- Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem ** Found 4 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64 is a duplicate with bash-4.1.2-8.el6.centos.x86_64 glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc- common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64 glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of config(glibc- common) = ('0', '2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12') glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc = ('0', '2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12') ------------------------------- I tried running "yum-complete-transaction --skip-broken" and "yum-complete-transaction --exclude=yum" but neither worked. I've run "rpm --rebuilddb", but this did not improve matters, though the error message is slightly different: ------------------------------- Error: Protected multilib versions: glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 != glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686 ** Found 3 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows: bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64 is a duplicate with bash-4.1.2-8.el6.centos.x86_64 glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 is a duplicate with glibc- common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64 glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_64 has missing requires of glibc = ('0', '2.12', '1.47.el6_2.12') ------------------------------- As ever, any suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org