Fedora 13 Yum-3.2.28 Broken?

crokett · 08-23-2010, 10:12 AM

I did the system updates and one package was listed - yum-3.2.28.3 so I installed it Friday. Since then I can't install new packages. The gui package manager errors out. yum also errors out. I have a desktop with yum-3.2.27 and it installs the same packages with no problems.

When I try to remove 3.2.28 here is what I get...

Code:

$ sudo yum remove yum-3.2.28
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum.noarch 0:3.2.28-3.fc13 set to be erased
--> Processing Dependency: yum >= 3.2.19 for package: PackageKit-yum-0.6.6-1.fc13.i686
.......
........
---> Package openclient-welcome.i586 0:20100226-1.fc12 set to be erased
---> Package openclient-welcome-data-icons.noarch 0:20100227-5.fc13 set to be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected
** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
deb-1.10.27-3.i586 has missing requires of perl = ('0', '5.8.6', None)
deb-1.10.27-3.i586 has missing requires of update-alternatives

Yum-3.2.27 is still listed as installed. How can I start using that version and/or remove the newer version? I also tried downgrading, but yum says v3.2.28 only supports an upgrade. I found references to a conf file in /etc that lists protected packages that I can edit. it doesn't exist on my system.

kkoene · 08-23-2010, 01:36 PM

Looking at the output. Did you try to install the missing perl modules? That may fix this.

John VV · 08-23-2010, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Package openclient-welcome.i586 0:20100226-1.fc12 set to be erased
---> Package openclient-welcome-data-icons.noarch 0:20100227-5.fc13 set to be erased

this looks like you did a "upgrade" and not a" update " ?

and from this
" rpmdb" the rpm data base is corrupt

if a update and not a upgrade
then the standard( and very well documented ) rpm data base fix & yum clean up will do

Code:

su -
yum clean all 
rpm --rebuilddb 
yum update

some times yum will nor "clean all" because of the rpm db
if yum gives an error then run "rpm --rebuilddb" first fallowed by "yum clean all " then "yum update"

if this was a "upgrade" ??? this might? work

crokett · 08-23-2010, 07:28 PM

clean all and rebuild db did not work. when I run the gui package manager I get this:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 3270, in __init__
    self.repos.confirm_func = self._repo_gpg_confirm
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 823, in <lambda>
    repos = property(fget=lambda self: self._getRepos(),
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 551, in _getRepos
    prerepoconf = self.prerepoconf
AttributeError: 'PackageKitYumBase' object has no attribute 'prerepoconf'

Looks like a bug to me. This started when I updated yum on Friday. My work desktop has no issues and I have not updated it yet. So how do I roll back to a previous version?

John VV · 08-23-2010, 08:11 PM

can you use the terminal to run yum

the python " bug" is that the gui did not install the correct version for the gui to work

Code:

yum update

that might through an error if so fallow the on screen instructions for the "complete transaction "

crokett · 08-23-2010, 10:08 PM

yum update now shows this:

Code:

Running rpm_check_debug
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
perl = 5.8.6 is needed by (installed) deb-1.10.27-3.i586
Please report this error in http://yum.baseurl.org/report
** Found 2 pre-existing rpmdb problem(s), 'yum check' output follows:
deb-1.10.27-3.i586 has missing requires of perl = ('0', '5.8.6', None)
deb-1.10.27-3.i586 has missing requires of update-alternatives

I tried yum install perl, that failed with similar message but different package list. yum install update-alternatives gave package not found.

John VV · 08-23-2010, 10:47 PM

update-alternatives

are you installing multiple versions of gcc ? gcc 4.5 , gcc 4.3 & gcc 4.1

ok with this type of error i would not expect this to work , but it is worth a try anyway .

Code:

yum repolist all

i expect that to fail so you will need to ( Yes by hand )
read ALL the repo files in /etc/yum.repo.d

and list ALL the repos listed for ALL the files
all of the ones with " enable=0, and enable=1"
something might have been turned on ( that should not have been turned on ) and the ALL part is that something might be off now

it looks like you have a wrong repo turned on

this file " deb-1.10.27-3.i586 " looks odd
are you tiring to install the debain alien ?
a google hit shows a 2008 fedorafourm page
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=200955

crokett · 08-24-2010, 09:40 AM

I will do that. I do have alien installed. I was experimenting with a debian package several weeks ago. That could be what is screwing things up.

w@m · 11-02-2010, 04:07 PM

I have a similar problem as reported here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...pdates-787300/

It looks like that post is dead and yours are more recent. I am having trouble using yum on my Fedora 13 yum 3.2.28, pycurl-7.19.0-7.fc13.x84_64. Here is th error

Code:

Fatal Python error: pycurl: libcurl link-time version is older than compile-time version
Aborted (core dumped)

Same error is given when trying to use yum clean all, rpm --rebuilddb. I can't get updates, install or remove software from CLI or GUI using yum.

Thanks