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JoyceBabu
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There are unfinished transactions remaining

Post by JoyceBabu » 2012/11/21 05:15:46

When running [code]yum update package[/code] I am getting the following warning

[quote]There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.[/quote]

When running yum-complete-transaction, I am getting the following error

[quote]--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum.noarch 0:3.2.29-22.el6.centos will be erased
--> Processing Dependency: yum >= 3.0 for package: yum-plugin-priorities-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: yum >= 3.0 for package: yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: yum >= 2.2 for package: atomic-release-1.0-14.el6.art.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: yum >= 3.2.29 for package: yum-utils-1.1.30-14.el6.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package atomic-release.noarch 0:1.0-14.el6.art will be erased
---> Package yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.1.30-14.el6 will be erased
---> Package yum-plugin-priorities.noarch 0:1.1.30-14.el6 will be erased
---> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.30-14.el6 will be erased
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
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Is this something to be worried about?

pjwelsh
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There are unfinished transactions remaining

Post by pjwelsh » 2012/11/21 15:02:13

Does "rpm -q yum yum-plugin-priorities" produce 2 results for each package? You could remove the explicit *older* package manually and see how much further you get. Sounds as if a yum update of some kind got killed/died/power-cycled in the middle of an operation.

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