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

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:

>
> Yes, the kernel-source.rpm comes from my repo, but the localpackage is in:
>
> /var/cache/yum/R0_os11.1/packages/kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
>
> so its the package which I downloaded from my repo.
> (The md5sum for the localpackage and the repo are the same, I checked that)
>
> And regardless of the critical warning, the package is installed.
> A simple rpm -U /var/cache/.../kernel-source.rpm does not show db errors
> and doing a
> rpm -U http://reposerver/tmp/kernel-source-2.6.27.25-0.1.1.x86_64.rpm
> works too.
> The only thing which I currently know, is this critical warning with
> "yum udpate" and if I update "more" rpms, the db error.

okay - just to verify can you send me the output of:

yum --version


and rpm -q python

thanks,
-sv