Bug 398741 - Installing tcl-devel 8.4 via yum erases half of the system
Summary: Installing tcl-devel 8.4 via yum erases half of the system
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: yum
Version: 8
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-25 21:42 UTC by Deajan
Modified: 2014-01-21 23:00 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-05-28 19:58:09 UTC
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Description Deajan 2007-11-25 21:42:07 UTC
Description of problem:
When installing tcl-devel 8.4 via yum, quite every single package is updated/
erased.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 8 2.6.23.1-49.fc8

How reproducible:
try install tcl-devel tcl-devel-8.4.15-5.fc8 via graphical yum interface (be 
careful it will make your system unusable)

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run graphical yum as root
2. search for tcl-devel tcl-devel-8.4.15-5.fc8
3. try to install it and see
  
Actual results:
System icons disappear, most apps are erased, cannot reboot to X server.

Expected results:
Just needed tcl-devel to compile 8Kingdoms game.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Deajan 2007-11-26 11:29:05 UTC
After reboot got message id 'X' respawning too fast...
btw. programs like firefox are erased

Comment 2 Deajan 2007-11-26 12:46:29 UTC
Sorry i'm not trying to flood, but here's some info that might be important 
about the Fedora installation i had that made up that bug:
- Fedora 8 with gnome, without any KDE or server package, developpment packages 
were installed, still wonder why tcl-devel package was missing actually.
I guess if i've had installed whole Fedora DVD the tcl-devel package would 
already have been there and thus not erased half of my system (sorry can't give 
better explanation, being noob :) But i still wonder what would happen if 
someone updates his tcl & tcl-devel packages on F8.


Comment 3 Seth Vidal 2007-11-26 14:35:28 UTC
which graphical yum interface did you use? Can you check your /var/log/yum.log
and look for the date stamp of this? I'm curious what was in the transaction.

Comment 4 Deajan 2007-11-26 21:07:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> which graphical yum interface did you use? Can you check your /var/log/yum.log
> and look for the date stamp of this? I'm curious what was in the transaction.

Already reinstalled, sorry. Btw tried to reinstall tcl-devel, this time it
worked. :(


Comment 5 Seth Vidal 2007-11-26 21:58:27 UTC
okay well, I can't recreate this and that makes this a bit impossible to debug.


Comment 6 Deajan 2008-01-06 17:52:29 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> okay well, I can't recreate this and that makes this a bit impossible to debug.
> 

Hello, 

Deajan again, i had the same bug while installing jack-audioconnection-kit
This time, i kept the installation so i'd like you to re-examine that case by
supplying the /var/log/yum.log file. Could you please tell me if you will handle
that?

Comment 7 Seth Vidal 2008-03-12 15:56:17 UTC
the yum log file won't really help but sure, attach it.


Comment 8 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-28 19:58:09 UTC
Closing due to inactivity; please reopen if you continue to see this problem or
have more information to add to this report


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