Yum update seems to have stalled

[Richard E Miles]

On Tue, 3 May 2005 00:08:50 -0400
Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:

> On Mon May 2 2005 11:10 pm, Raman Gupta wrote:
> >
> > My yum update also froze on a newly installed Fedora Core 3 system.
> > Ctrl-C did not work -- after a kill -9, and another "yum update" I was
> > told that everything was up to date.  However, I was suspicious so I
> > checked my rpm database and there were about 30 packages that had been
> > upgraded but the older package had not been removed.
> >
> > Fixing the problem involved an rpm -e on each of the older duplicate
> > packages, and then a re-install of the newer package to restore several
> > missing files that got deleted in the older package removal (seemed like
> > mostly localization files).  I used the yum cached rpm's for the
> > reinstall, so at least the packages did not have to be downloaded again.
> >
> How do you check the rpm database and determine that packages have been 
> upgraded and older ones not removed? I know how to delete old packages, but 
> how do you find the ones that are in the state you discuss? 
> -- 
> Claude Jones
> Bluemont, VA, USA

To check for duplicates do:
rpm -qa | sort | less
The duplicates will be grouped together in the list.

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
registered linux user 46097