On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Eva Myers wrote:

> have noticed something a little odd.  Some (not all) of the yum.cron
> emails this morning included the message:
>
> There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running
> yum-complete-transaction first to finish them.
>
> Running yum-complete-transaction gives the following messages (among
> others):
>
> Removing:
> cups                          i386   1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6       installed   9.8 M
> cups-libs                     i386   1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6       installed   317 k
> nfs-utils-lib                 i386   1.0.8-7.2.z2            installed   103 k
> popt                          i386   1.10.2-48.el5           installed   121 k
>
> and then a stream of messages about other stuff which also needs to be
> removed, so I aborted the command when given the chance.  yum update
> worked normally (it updated the kernel but nothing else).
>
> I wonder if it's significant that "yum list cups" mentions only one
> version:
>
> cups.i386                      1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6                       installed
> but the other three packages mentioned all seem to have two versions
> installed e.g.:
>
> cups-libs.i386                   1:1.3.7-8.el5_3.6                     installed
> cups-libs.i386                   1:1.3.7-11.el5_4.3                    installed

Hmm.
1.3.7-11.el5_4.3 is the version which Troy removed from the repo.
I'd hazard a guess that you are updating from a mirror which did not
remove the pulled cups packages (such as the one at damtp.cam.ac.uk)

I suggest that you expliciutly update rpm on these machines
and then try again.

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