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

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Martin Vogt wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> vmw169:/var/lib # rpm --version
> RPM version 4.4.2.3
>
> vmw169:/var/lib # yum --version
>  3.2.23
>  Installed: rpm-4.4.2.3-37.10.1.x86_64 at 2009-07-29 16:21
>  Built    : http://bugs.opensuse.org at 2009-04-28 16:50
>  Committed: mls at suse.de at 2009-04-27 12:00
>
>  Installed: yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-107.25.x86_64 at 2009-07-29 16:20
>  Built    : http://bugs.opensuse.org at 2008-12-03 11:38
>  Committed: cthiel at suse.de at 2007-08-29 12:00
>
> vmw169:/var/lib # rpm -q python
> python-2.6.0-8.7
>
> My first debug result is:
>
> - If I remove the
> vogt[SPECS]>cat changelog.txt | wc -l
> 29886
>
> entries from the kernel-source.spec it works with yum-update.
> (But adding it back and removing the %files section works too) :(
> So maybe its a combination. Ridiculous entries in the changelog
> and a big file list?

I guess it could be - but that doesn't make much sense why yum would care. 
Yum doesn't really DO anything with either of those. All the actual 
package installation bits are handled by rpm and thd db-error is certainly 
coming from rpm.

What ver of rpm-python do you have installed?

-sv