Yum update problem with elfutils
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 27 17:47:00 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 11:41 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I am having problems with a yum update of a laptop. The user may have
> accidentally shutdown in the middle of an automatic yum update leaving
> things incomplete.
>
> The problem involves the update of elfutils
>
> Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils > 0.123-1.fc6
> Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils-libs > 0.123-1.fc6
>
> I may have made things worse in that while trying to fix this problem I
> removed the following:
>
> Jan 27 10:35:58 Erased: rpm-build
> Jan 27 10:36:01 Erased: elfutils
> Jan 27 11:09:29 Erased: elfutils-libs
> Jan 27 11:09:50 Erased: elfutils-libs
> Jan 27 11:12:54 Erased: elfutils-libelf-devel
> Jan 27 11:12:54 Erased: rpm-devel
>
> When I tried to remove elfutils-libelf there were so many other
> dependencies that would have also been removed, I aborted the removal.
>
> Now when I try to install elfutils I get the following:
>
> [root at Re02 share]# yum install elfutils
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for elfutils to pack into transaction set.
> elfutils-0.125-1.fc6.i386 100% |=========================| 15 kB
> 00:00
> ---> Package elfutils.i386 0:0.125-1.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.122) for package:
> elfutils
> --> Processing Dependency: libdw.so.1 for package: elfutils
> --> Processing Dependency: elfutils-libs = 0.125-1.fc6 for package:
> elfutils
> --> Processing Conflict: elfutils-libelf conflicts elfutils >
> 0.123-1.fc6
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for elfutils-libs to pack into transaction set.
> elfutils-libs-0.125-1.fc6 100% |=========================| 17 kB
> 00:00
> ---> Package elfutils-libs.i386 0:0.125-1.fc6 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Conflict: elfutils-libelf conflicts elfutils-libs >
> 0.123-1.fc6
> --> Processing Conflict: elfutils-libelf conflicts elfutils >
> 0.123-1.fc6
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils > 0.123-1.fc6
> Error: elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils-libs > 0.123-1.fc6
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If any of you can give me a hand I would appreciate your help.
----
assuming that this is the only place where duplicate packages exist...
rpm -e elfutils-0.123-1 elfutils-libs-0.123-1
Craig
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