Created attachment 603271 [details] Error log Description of problem: Error when trying to update the Fedora 17 Packages with yum groupupdate Base. Update impossible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Login as root 2. yum update yum 3. yum clean all 4. yum groupupdate Base Actual results: update fails with error messages (see log enclosed) ERREUR lors de la vérification de la transaction avec les dépendances : Expected results: Updated packages Additional info: see log enclosed
i might have a related issue where running yum seemed to crash system with 'memory manager error page_alloc.c: 796' (before preupgrded from fc16 to fc17 was 'page_alloc.c: 777') ? since upgraded fc16->fc17 i wasnt able to get update due to system crashes but was able to downgrade and then update. system stability seemed to improve when i was able to yum clean all yum downgrade yum-* which downgraded me from yum-0.3.4.3-28.fc17.x86_64 to yum-0.3.4.3-23.fc17.x86_64 then i could run updates normally ( though didnt update yum, will try if stability continues ) not sure this should have helped a page_alloc crash i had but i think a yum downgrade to yum-0.3.4.3-23.fc17.x86_64 fixed my issue so maybe help you.
(In reply to comment #1) > i might have a related issue where running yum seemed to crash system with > 'memory manager error page_alloc.c: 796' (before preupgrded from fc16 to > fc17 was 'page_alloc.c: 777') ? > > since upgraded fc16->fc17 i wasnt able to get update due to system crashes > but was able to downgrade and then update. > > system stability seemed to improve when i was able to > > yum clean all > yum downgrade yum-* > > which downgraded me > from yum-0.3.4.3-28.fc17.x86_64 > to yum-0.3.4.3-23.fc17.x86_64 > > then i could run updates normally ( though didnt update yum, will try if > stability continues ) > > not sure this should have helped a page_alloc crash i had but i think a yum > downgrade to yum-0.3.4.3-23.fc17.x86_64 fixed my issue so maybe help you. Thank you, I tried to fix the problem with: yum clean all yum downgrade yum-* Unfornunately, the downgrade of yum fails, with dependency problems (see below). Test de la transaction en cours ERREUR lors de la vérification de la transaction avec les dépendances : python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by (installed) alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by (installed) bittorrent-4.4.0-14.fc13.noarch python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by (installed) system-config-display-2.2-1.fc12.x86_64 python-abi = 2.6 is needed by (installed) alchemist-1.0.37-8.fc12.x86_64 Veuillez reporter cette erreur dans https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=yum ** 48 problèmes RPMDB préexistants trouvés, la sortie de « yum check » est la suivante : ...
For what it's worth, I had a similiar dependency issue with alchemist and python on my F16 system. If you look at the package names, you can see that the older Fedora packages are having problems. If they aren't needed, you can simply remove them. I did a "yum remove alchemist" (see bug 819323) and then my update worked.
Look like you have some issue with some very old old packages (fc12 & fc13) these packages is not compatible with the current packages, so you have to remove them and install something recent. Remember upgrading from one release to another using yum is not supported. It can be done, but you need to know how to solve package incompatibility issues. This is not a problem with yum