From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070325 Firefox/2.0.0.3 Description of problem: The program runs until either pup or yum update hits transaction testing. then freezes and gives error notification (log output below) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.click the updates panel widget 2.confirm 'view updates' 3.click 'Apply" on gui 4.or use yum update on console Actual Results: full run of standard gui update or yum update, untill transaction test secquence failure Expected Results: a normal update Additional info: [('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-disable-polling.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-disable-polling.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-find-by-capability.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-find-by-capability.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-find-by-property.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-find-by-property.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-get-property.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-get-property.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-is-caller-locked-out.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-is-caller-locked-out.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-lock.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-lock.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/hal-set-property.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/hal-set-property.1.gz', 0L)), ('file /usr/share/man/man1/lshal.1.gz from install of hal-0.5.9-1.fc7 conflicts with file from package hal-0.5.9-0.git20070401.1.fc7', (7, '/usr/share/man/man1/lshal.1.gz', 0L))]
The problem is that hal used be multilib ('yum list installed hal' will probably show both i386 and x86_64 packages), but has now been split into hal-libs (which is multilib) and hal (which isn't - it's not a library). Your system is trying to upgrade the (unneeded) i386 hal package, which would be allowed if it was multilib, but now that it isn't.. it's not OK. We will probably have a fixed version of hal in a day or two, but if you really want to update now, you can probably get around this by removing the i386 version of hal.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235152 ***