Re: yum appears to fail to complete updates if interrupted

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On Thursday 10 August 2006 14:04, Gerry Tool wrote:
> I was performing a yum update in FC5 when the system froze.  On reboot,
> I executed yum update again and it updated a partial list of the
> packages that were listed in the first attempt.  However, one of the
> packages in the original list, but not the second list was firefox,
> updating to 1.5.0.6.  After the update, my firefox is still at 1.5.0.4.  
> I have tried several things to get it to update, all unsuccessfully,
> including yum clean all followed by another update attempt, and
> downloading the package and using rpm.  That fails due to dependencies
> which apparently were also in the interrupted update.
>
> Is there some way to clear this up so the failed updates will proceed?

what does a simple rpm -q firefox show?  It is possible that the update did 
the first part, install the new package, but froze before the second part, 
remove old package.  You could in effect have both installed.

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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

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