[PlanetCCRMA] (OT) yum dependency problems following power cut

[Michael TD Nelson]

Hi,

Thank you very much for your response. The help is much appreciated.

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:48 +0200, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 19:17 +0100, Michael TD Nelson wrote: 
> > Last time I was doing a 'yum update', the power to my machine was cut
> > halfway through. I suspect this may have caused the problems which I am
> > having now.
> 
> Just in case you should (I think) check first if you have duplicated
> packages installed. 
> 
> You can do that with "package-cleanup --dupes", package-cleanup is part
> of the yum-utils package. If you have duplicated packages you have to
> try to remove the redundant ones (the older ones probably). 

Hmm. Yes, there are sixty or so duplicated packages. I won't copy the
output here, unless anyone thinks it would be useful!

How do I remove a particular version of a package? (I did notice that
you said 'try to remove'...)

> > Here are the last few lines of output from today's 'yum update',
> > followed by a couple of other commands which I thought might be
> > relevant. Has anyone got any suggestions for me?
> > 
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.60-30.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving
> > problems
> >   --> Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-30.fc9 is needed by package
> > 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.60-30.fc9.i386 (installed)
> > glibc-2.8-3.i686 from installed has depsolving problems
> >   --> Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package
> > glibc-2.8-3.i686 (installed)
> > Error: Missing Dependency: perl = 4:5.10.0-30.fc9 is needed by package
> > 1:perl-Module-Pluggable-3.60-30.fc9.i386 (installed)
> > Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package
> > glibc-2.8-3.i686 (installed)
> 
> Hmmm, yes, probably you have a "halfway" updated system. 
> Do a "package-cleanup --problems" to see what are your current dependency problems. 
> 

[root at localhost ~]# package-cleanup --problems
Setting up yum
Reading local RPM database
Processing all local requires
Missing dependencies:
Package checkstyle requires ant-javadoc
Package checkstyle requires antlr-javadoc
Package checkstyle requires jakarta-commons-beanutils-javadoc
Package checkstyle requires xml-commons-apis-javadoc
Package perl-Module-Pluggable requires perl = 4:5.10.0-31.fc9
Package glibc requires glibc-common = 2.8-8

> > [root at localhost ~]# yum list perl
> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > Installed Packages
> > perl.i386                                4:5.10.0-30.fc9
> > installed
> > Available Packages
> > perl.i386                                4:5.10.0-31.fc9        updates
> > 
> > [root at localhost ~]# yum list glibc-common
> > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> > Installed Packages
> > glibc-common.i386                        2.8-3
> > installed
> > Available Packages
> > glibc-common.i386                        2.8-8                  updates
> 
> What if you do a "yum list glibc*"?
> 

That seems useful...

[root at localhost ~]# yum list glibc*
[list of repositories snipped]
Installed Packages
glibc.i686                               2.8-3
installed
glibc.i686                               2.8-8
installed
glibc-common.i386                        2.8-3
installed
glibc-devel.i386                         2.8-3
installed
glibc-headers.i386                       2.8-3
installed
Available Packages
glibc.i386                               2.8-8                  updates
glibc.i686                               2.8-8                  updates
glibc-common.i386                        2.8-8                  updates
glibc-devel.i386                         2.8-8                  updates
glibc-headers.i386                       2.8-8                  updates
glibc-utils.i386                         2.8-8                  updates

Which should I remove, and how?

Thanks again!
Regards
Michael