hi.. points taken! i did a 'yum list extra' and cleared out a bunch of 'redhat-config-*' files from the rpm db 'rpm -e foo'. i then made sure i had the yum/fedora-release for fc2 and i did a rpm update (Uvh) for these files. my expectations/goal was to go ahead and do another upgrade to fc2 to make sure that i had the right files for fc2. i then did a 'yum upgrade'. yum ran, buiilt a list of files that it was going to get/install. it just finished with the process. however, when i do a rpm -q python, i see that i have the same version of python that was installed prior to the yum upgrade process. so, what am i doing wrong? how do i actually get the rpms/files that yum said it got to actually be loaded/installed, so that i can see them.. i can provide you a copy of the list of files it stated that it got, but it's pretty long, which is what i expected... is there something else to the process that i'm missing... my current rpm versions are: yum-2.0.7-1.1 fedora-release-2-4 python-2.2.3-7 yum.conf simply points back to the dowload fedora repos for fc2/i386. to keep thing simple, i decided to get everything from redhats repos for now. my distro seems to be fc something?? is there a way that i can determine exactly what the system thinks it is.. when i fire up gnome, the fc logo appears.. when i do a 'cat /etc/procversion/name (?)' i get RH 8... so at this point, the server is sitting here.. it seems to have gotten the files.. but it doesn't seem to have installed them... any idea as to what's going on, or what i need to do toget everything up to fc2. if the rpms are installed, how/why can't i see them when i do an 'rpm -q' do i need to reboot 1st...? btw, i just did a [foo /]find . -name python*.rpm and saw the correct versions/rpms in the /var/cache/yum/base/packages dir... so what do i need to do to get these files installd/loaded into my system? i'd like to get this resolved before i reboot, and seriosuly screw something up! thanks.. bruce -----Original Message----- From: seth vidal [mailto:skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 9:48 PM To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified; bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Yum] yum dying... On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 21:16 -0800, bruce wrote: > hi... > > i'm trying to run yum... > > i have rh fedora (trying to get to fc3) > > it looks like my system has parts of fc1/fc2... as if the yum that i tried > to do to go from rh8 to fc2 didn't quite work!! > > i have the release-fedora for fc3 and the yum for fc2. > > i do a 'yum upgrade yum python rpm' and yum dies on me... which takes my > system down, forcing me to have to reboot... > > searches of google indicate that others have seen something simialr, but i > don't find a solution/cause... > > any ideas/issues as to what's the cause of this??? > You're not giving nearly enough information to help you. What ver of yum? (rpm -q yum) What ver of rpm? (rpm -q rpm) What ver of your distro? (rpm -q redhat-release fedora-release) What happens when you say yum 'dies'? -sv
