[Techtalk] : Fedora 17 yum woes (dupe packages)

[Eeva Järvinen]

26.12.2012 12.44 "Gwen Morse" <gwen.morse at gmail.com> kirjoitti:
>
> I hadn't done an update on an older laptop in some time and set it to
> update. It lost power and the battery ran down, interrupting it.
>
> Yum (or the rpm database) now appears broken.
>
> When I try to do any further changes or edits I get error messages
> about duplicate packages. I would expect to just remove the duplicates
> and reinstall them by hand, but there's several hundred duplicate
> packages totalling over 3 gigs in disk space, including many that are
> clearly core files to the OS.
>
> Is this horked up beyond all repair, or is there some hope of fixing
> it without resorting to a clean install?

At the very least give 'yum-complete-transaction' a go (as root). It might
take some time, but as a general rule, yum is pretty good in recovering
from crashes et al.

> Can I remove the older files through rpm or are the newer duplicates
> not fully installed, yet?

It's impossible to say from a distance - take a look at yum logs.

Hth,

Eeva