Gerry Tool gstool@earthlink.net wrote:
I was performing a yum update in FC5 when the system froze. On reboot, I executed yum update again and it updated a partial list of the packages that were listed in the first attempt. However, one of the packages in the original list, but not the second list was firefox, updating to 1.5.0.6. After the update, my firefox is still at 1.5.0.4. I have tried several things to get it to update, all unsuccessfully, including yum clean all followed by another update attempt, and downloading the package and using rpm. That fails due to dependencies which apparently were also in the interrupted update.
I've had to kill -KILL (no reaction to -HUP and -TERM) yum for various reasons, and sometimes it gets messed up in that it claims there are /no/ updates available (when there clearly are lots of them). Manually deleting the files in the local staging areas clears this up when a "yum clean all" doesn't:
primary.xml.gz primary.xml.gz.sqlite cachecookie repomd.xml
I'm quite sure this is way overkill, but it works...