Gerry Tool <gstool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. I've had to kill -KILL (no reaction to -HUP and -TERM) yum for various reasons, and sometimes it gets messed up in that it claims there are /no/ updates available (when there clearly are lots of them). Manually deleting the files in the local staging areas clears this up when a "yum clean all" doesn't: primary.xml.gz primary.xml.gz.sqlite cachecookie repomd.xml I'm quite sure this is way overkill, but it works... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list