A Crash of the Yum Updater Results in Duplicate Packages

Recently, I was using yum to update a machine on which I was running Fedora Core 4. Unfortunately, my /usr partition filled up and caused yum to crash. A side effect of the crash was that rpm reported that I had several packages installed twice. After fixing the space problem in /usr, I fixed the problem of duplicate packages by forcing rpm to reinstall all the packages that yum was installing during the update. Sample commands for doing this are:

mkdir /scr/rpm-force
cp /var/cache/yum/updates-released/packages/*.rpm /scr/rpm-force
cp /var/cache/yum/extras/packages/*.rpm /scr/rpm-force
cd /scr/rpm-force
rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm

~ by Ryan Lefever on January 21, 2006.

Posted in fc4, fedora core, linux, rpm, yum
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One Response to “A Crash of the Yum Updater Results in Duplicate Packages”

  1. Thanks! That helped me.

    Hannes said this on May 19, 2007 at 1:16 am | Reply

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