Yesterday I installed FC5, straightforward installation. I did a "yum update" and I think it may have been interrupted partway through but I can't be sure because after I suspended my laptop, the screen failed to come back on when I resumed it. I thought yum was probably done but it may not have been.
So today I went to do "yum update" again and I got some missing dependency errors.
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package squid.i386 7:2.5.STABLE14-2.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package ntp.i386 0:4.2.0.a.20050816-11.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package pam.i386 0:0.99.5.0-5.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package gdm.i386 1:2.14.9-1 set to be updated
---> Package beagle.i386 0:0.2.6-1.fc5.1 set to be updated
---> Package httpd.i386 0:2.2.2-1.2 set to be updated
---> Package coreutils.i386 0:5.97-1.2 set to be updated
---> Package anacron.i386 0:2.3-39.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package ethereal.i386 0:0.99.0-fc5.1 set to be updated
---> Package bind.i386 30:9.3.2-20.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 set to be installed
---> Package xorg-x11-xfs.i386 1:1.0.1-4.FC5.0 set to be updated
---> Package hal.i386 0:0.5.7.1-2.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package mysql-server.i386 0:5.0.22-1.FC5.1 set to be updated
---> Package postgresql-server.i386 0:8.1.4-1.FC5.1 set to be updated
---> Package ethereal-gnome.i386 0:0.99.0-fc5.1 set to be updated
---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.5.4-0.1.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package glibc-headers.i386 0:2.4-8 set to be updated
---> Package initscripts.i386 0:8.31.5-1 set to be updated
---> Package sendmail.i386 0:8.13.7-2.fc5.2 set to be updated
---> Package avahi.i386 0:0.6.10-1.FC5 set to be updated
---> Package nscd.i386 0:2.4-8 set to be updated
---> Package nfs-utils.i386 1:1.0.8-3.fc5 set to be updated
---> Package dbus.i386 0:0.61-3.fc5.1 set to be updated
---> Package mlocate.i386 0:0.14-0.fc5.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers = 2.4-4 for package: glibc-devel
--> Processing Dependency: avahi = 0.6.9 for package: avahi-glib
--> Processing Dependency: dbus = 0.61-3 for package: dbus-devel
--> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.2.0-5.1.2 for package: httpd-manual
--> Processing Dependency: dbus = 0.61-3 for package: dbus-x11
--> Processing Dependency: hal = 0.5.7-3 for package: hal-devel
--> Processing Dependency: hal = 0.5.7-3 for package: hal-gnome
--> Processing Dependency: dbus = 0.61-3 for package: dbus-python
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
I was able to exclude those packages and update everything else. But I'd like to be able to update those packages. Also gnome seems to be generally borked, possibly as a result of interrupting yum? I ran "yum clean all" and "rpm --rebuilddb" and then tried "yum update" again but to no avail.
Please advise!