Well, look at the package versions and the date. This is Fedora Core 2 already. You should give more details on what you've done between your original posting (where an upgrade failed) and these later messages.

When I last asked your for output of "yum list libstdc\*", you reported back with a libstdc++ newer than Fedora Core 3. Now you say the old one from Fedora Core 1 would be installed.

rpm -qa 'libstdc*'

would tell. But above can be seen, that you upgraded to mysql packages on Feb 2nd, which are newer than FC2's. You really should keep track of what you install and from where you install. Full output browsable with "rpm -qa --last | less".

[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu....58-4.i386.rpm http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu....58-4.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu....58-4.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu....58-4.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:mysql ########################################### [ 50%]
2:mysql-server ########################################### [100%]
[root@localhost root]# yum upgrade
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
mysql-server-0-3.23.58-9. 100% |=========================| 7.5 kB 00:00
mysql-0-3.23.58-9.1.i386. 100% |=========================| 12 kB 00:00
Finding obsoleted packages
Resolving dependencies
.......Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package libstdc++-devel needs libstdc++ = 3.3.3-7, this is not available.
Package gcc-c++ needs libstdc++ = 3.3.3, this is not available.
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[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh --oldpackage http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.2-1.i386.rpm http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.2-1.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.2-1.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.2-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package libstdc++-3.3.2-1 is already installed
package libstdc++-devel-3.3.2-1 is already installed
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[root@localhost root]#
[root@localhost root]#
[root@localhost root]#
[root@localhost root]#
[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.3-7.i386.rpm http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.3-7.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.3-7.i386.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...3.3-7.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++ = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.3.2-1
libstdc++-devel = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.3.2-1
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[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++ = 3.3.2-1 is needed by (installed) libstdc++-devel-3.3.2-1
libstdc++ = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.3.2-1
[root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvh ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm
Retrieving ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/...3.3-7.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
cpp = 3.3.3-7 is needed by gcc-3.3.3-7
libgcc >= 3.3.3-7 is needed by gcc-3.3.3-7
libstdc++ = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.3.2-1
libstdc++-devel = 3.3.2 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.3.2-1
gcc = 3.3.2-1 is needed by (installed) gcc-c++-3.3.2-1
gcc = 3.3.2-1 is needed by (installed) gcc-g77-3.3.2-1
gcc = 3.3.2-1 is needed by (installed) gcc-gnat-3.3.2-1
gcc = 3.3.2-1 is needed by (installed) gcc-java-3.3.2-1
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[root@localhost root]#

Man it's a crazy game of cat and mouse even trying this...Any solutions? If it doesn't work I guess I'll be forced to pray I haven't screwed the box up enough incase of a reboot due to power flashes.

Let's get back to an earlier post:

If you run rpm -qa 'libstdc*', do you still get above packages? Because according to your more recent posts, a different libstdc++ version is installed.

No other errors. If these are the only ones, you can remove them just fine with "rpm -e libstdc++-devel gcc-c++", as the -devel package is only for software development, and you could reinstall the C++ compiler at a later point.

Because you would need to upgrade cpp, libgcc, gcc\* if you ran rpm manually. More convenient would be to use

yum update libstd\* cpp libgcc gcc\*

for that.

[root@localhost root]# yum update libstd\* cpp libgcc gcc\*
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora US mirror
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Released Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
.....Unable to satisfy dependencies
Package libstdc++-devel needs libstdc++ = 3.3.3-7, this is not available.
Package gcc-c++ needs libstdc++ = 3.3.3, this is not available.
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[root@localhost root]#

Told you earlier to erase (i.e. uninstall) gcc-c++ and libstdc++-devel

sorry for being an annoyance. it seems to be doing a heck of a lot more now, i'm seeing dep: and its downloading dependencies and updating and stuff, so we'll see if it works. thanks so much. once again sorry for being an idiot.

Getting ed-0.2-35.i386.rpm
ed-0.2-35.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 44 kB 00:00
Getting gtk+-devel-1.2.10-29.1.1.i386.rpm
gtk+-devel-1.2.10-29.1.1. 100% |=========================| 1.1 MB 00:14
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
libgcc 100 % done 1/1366

It seems to be hanging there...been there nearly an hour I think...hmmm