On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:32 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: December 4, 2013 15:09
> > From: Frank Cox Sent: December 4, 2013 15:04
> > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:55:03 -0800 Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> > > > Tried that but it failed.
> > >
> > > Describe "failed".
> >
> > That happened yesterday and I can not recall specifically what it
> > said. I am currently in the process of backing up the hard drive
> > before proceeding any further. I will see if I can get the error a
> > little later today.
>
> Well I am unable to locate the error message as it does not appear to
> be logged. In the interim I have done a lot more research and I now
> suspect that I have two separate problems:
>
> 1. Since the yum update did not complete then it never had a chance
> to update the rpm database,
>
> 2. We probably have one or more packages that have been install but
> the predecessor has not be removed.
>
> I have done the following:
>
> a. Rebuilt the rpm database:
>
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> b. I then retried the yum update this aborted report conflicts in
> systemtap packages.
>
> c. I listed the installed systemtap packages:
>
> rpm -qa | grep systemtap | sort
>
> This revealed that there were two systemtap-devel packages
> installed and I removed the newer one.
>
> d. I then retried yum update and this appeared to work fine until it
> got to:
>
> Cleanup : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.1-3.el6.x86_64 286/513
>
> At this point the system appears to be hung. I can not proceed any
> further this evening as I am working on this from home and I do not
> have physical access to the server to reboot it. In the morning I
> will reboot the server and try again but this time I am going to do
> a "yum clean all" to the rpm database rebuild.
>
> Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
>
Try package-cleanup --problems and see what it returns
package-cleanup --cleandupes may helps with removal of duplicates
Louis
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