Unable to update shadow-utils
 

I just built a Fedora Core 3 i86_64 system. All appeared to go smoothly.

I was able to update my system using up2date. All except for shadow-utils.

Every time i try to update using up2date, yum or rpm, it locks up. I've tried GUI and command-line based utilities, pointed to the dag repos, cleaning the yum cache, and everything else I can glean from reading the forums. Yum locks on the message 'Running Transaction Test'; everything else locks too, I just don't have the last message handy now.

It looks to be something unique to my system; I just don't have a clue where to look.

Any ideas or help will be appreciated.

I've noticed this on occassion. Sometimes it seems like an RPM process will get hung up and not release its lock on the RPM database. You should do a ps aux and then kill -9 any RPM processes you see. If that doesn't work (it should) you may need to reboot (I had to do that a couple times back with RH9).

Why not try the Debian “apt” installer? It blows yum and up2date out of the water.

Go to http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...extras/3/i386/ or one of the fedora mirrors and download/install apt-0.5.15cnc7-1.i386.rpm

Then run:

apt-get mirror-select
apt-get update
apt-get -f install

where “apt-get mirror-select” lets you pick a fedora repository and “apt-get -f install” will clean up any broken dependencies.

Then run either:

apt-get install shadow-utils (or whatever the actual package name is)

or

apt-get -y upgrade

This “install” just does the package and “upgrade” is a full system upgrade.

Try it once and you will never use yum or up2date again.

my issue identified
 

Thanks everyone for your help. It appears the package is broken, I just found this report on the Fedora website.

Bugzilla Bug 155730 – (2.6.11-1.14_FC3 sparse file?) x86_64 shadow-utils fc3-update install broken.