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. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [log in to unmask] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna