[Yum] yum critical: <XYZ> was supposed to be installed but is not

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:

> Martin Vogt wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have tracked down a critical yum error message:
>>
>>
>>> kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64
>>> was supposed to be installed but is not!
>>
>
> Now it gets interesting.
>
> I get this error on "yum update":
>
>> Running Transaction
>>  Updating       : kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64
>
>>  Cleanup        : kernel-source-2.6.27.23-0.1.1.x86_64
>
>> kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but
>> is not!
>
> But _not_ on:
>
> yum update
> /var/cache/yum/R0_os11.1/packages/kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
>
> (which is the same rpm of course)
>
>> Updating:
>> kernel-source
>>     x86_64   2.6.27.25-0.1.1     /kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64
> [......]
>> Running Transaction
>>  Updating       : kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64
>
>>  Cleanup        : kernel-source-2.6.27.23-0.1.1.x86_64
>     >Transaction time: 41.489
>
> so running yum update does not work but
> yum update /path/to/rpm.rpm works(!)
>
> I use yum 3.2.23
> including the lates patches from rawhide:
>
> Patch0: installonlyn-enable.patch
> Patch1: yum-mirror-priority.patch
> Patch2: yum-manpage-files.patch
> Patch3: yum-multilib-policy-best.patch
> Patch4: yum-HEAD.patch
> Patch5: no-more-exactarchlist.patch
> Patch6: yum_no_deprected.patch
>
> (The previous version 3.2.23 without the pachtes had the same problem btw.)
>

Here's what I suspect is happening:

- yum is running the rpm transaction
- the transaction finishes.
- yum goes to check that everything it was supposed to do is done.
- it finds that a package it was installing is not installed b/c the rpmdb 
error you're getting means rpm was not able to register the entry in the 
rpmdb


So your first order of business is: fix the db error you're getting.
After that I suspect the other problems will go away.

-sv