[Yum] preupgrade locked up, we rebooted, ran preupgrade again and it succeeded but many dup pkgs now in rpmdb

[James Antill]

Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> writes:

> James Antill wrote:
>> Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> writes:
>>
>>
>>> We ran preupgrade (F9=>F10) on one machine and it locked up about 80%
>>> through the anaconda package install.  So we rebooted the machine and
>>> it came back up, we logged in and ran preupgrade again and this time
>>> it succeeded.  But now we notice there are a huge number of packages
>>> in the rpmdb from the old release.  How can we clear these out of this
>>> machine?
>>>
>>
>>  package-cleanup --dupes
>>
>>
> Ok, we ran package-cleanup --dupes and the --cleandupes. It didn't
> really show you what it was doing but after a while the prompt came
> back and when we ran --dupes again there were no packages listed. But
> now we notice something else. For example the yum 3.2.21 package is
> showing the fc9 version. And when you do 'yum list yum' it only shows
> you the fc9 installed version. But I know there is a version in fc10
> and it should have shown that as available. Also the rpmdb shows 753
> fc10 and 283 fc9 for packages by release. But yet 'yum update' shows
> no packages available for update.

 This sounds like one of /var/cache/updates or /var/cache/fedora
actually has the fc9 metadata cached. You could try:

 "yum clean expire-cache"

...or just "clean all". I'd also make sure that you've moved from the
fc9 "newkey" repos. back to the normal ones.

-- 
James Antill -- james at and.org