Topic: error yum update

[Helgo]

I have a problem updating with yum.

Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.1.9-1 for package: freetype-devel
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.1.9-1 is needed by package freetype-devel

freetype 2.1.9-1 is installed?

what to do now?

Greetings from Holland,

Helgo

[mike_mattos]

have you looked at the CentOS site to see if the problem exists in CentOS?

I've built a full ( installed EVERYTHING ) CentOS machine as a tester and find that sometimes problems on SME are based in CentOS and the solution is already on their site, and the yum system fixes it automatically.

[gordonr]

freetype 2.1.9-1 is installed?

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759

[nmtrier]

I have a problem updating with yum.

Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: freetype = 2.1.9-1 for package: freetype-devel
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: freetype = 2.1.9-1 is needed by package freetype-devel

freetype 2.1.9-1 is installed?

what to do now?

I had a similar error.  From the console logged on as root, I ran "yum -d 9 update"
Each time, it reported an error for the next file, but successfully progressed by one file each time.  Eventually it reached the end of the list, asked whether I wished to proceed, and completed the update successfully. Since then, there have not been any more updates, so I don't know if this has fixed the original problem, but at least the update was completed.

[gordonr]

I had a similar error.  From the console logged on as root, I ran "yum -d 9 update"
Each time, it reported an error for the next file, but successfully progressed by one file each time.  Eventually it reached the end of the list, asked whether I wished to proceed, and completed the update successfully. Since then, there have not been any more updates, so I don't know if this has fixed the original problem, but at least the update was completed.

That will quite likely come back at some time in the future as you appear to have some form of unresolved dependency. Doing it one file at a time is "papering over" that problem. The best action is to raise a bug in the bug tracker so that it can be easily searched for in the future.

[nmtrier]

The best action is to raise a bug in the bug tracker so that it can be easily searched for in the future.

On closer consideration, I realise that my experience was not the same unresolved dependency, but a problem with header corruption when yum populates the transaction set.  The reference to the bug which was logged with almost identical symptons to mine:
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1772
Nick

[Helgo]

Thanks to you all.

This works for me.

1) Try again
2) yum clean metadata and try again
3) check whether you have a proxy which is breaking the downloads
4) Run "yum -d 9 update" and attach (not inline please) the output