yum: "processing conflict"

[dr_kludge]

Thank you all for posting. I referenced this forum thread in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421391
The first work around that I had was

yum update --exclude=rsyslog --exclude=syslog-ng

then the better solution was

yum remove syslog-ng
yum update

[bradchaus]

surely you shouldnt use both rsyslog and syslog-ng together ... you want ONE, or the other, otherwise they will conflict.

[bill_mcgonigle]

surely you shouldnt use both rsyslog and syslog-ng together ... you want ONE, or the other, otherwise they will conflict.

Yes, but the question is why is yum trying to pack both of them in the updates set? If syslog-ng is installed and it conflicts with rsyslog, then yum shouldn't be including rsyslog.

My guess is something else is depending on rsyslog and sucking it in manditorialy when it should allow either, but that's just a guess. Isn't there a capabilities thing in yum?

Anyway, I added --exclude=rsyslog and yum appears to be satisfied.

[LuKaZ]

Thank you all for posting. I referenced this forum thread in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421391
The first work around that I had was



then the better solution was

If I try to do:

[0001][albertop@mtheory:~]$ sudo yum remove syslog-ng


I got this:

...
...
... List of +300 packages

Transaction Summary
================================================== ===========================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 0 Package(s)
Remove 392 Package(s)

Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!

Any ideas?

I have no way to see my /var/log/messages with any information:

Basically I want to see the system message file to search kernel debug info to try to fix problems with my wireless driver

Thanks

[leadgolem]

How about this?

rpm -e --nodeps syslog-ng
yum update
yum install syslog-ng

Or

yum --exclude=rsyslog update

[LuKaZ]

Now I see my problem, the first time I cope with the "conflicting packages" I removed rsyslog, as you point out in your reply, and as result of this package removal I lost updated message system info from the /var/log/messages file, as the file was never updated again, now I realized what the origin of the problem is. The syslog-ng script had not been linked automatically in my /etc/rc*.d scripts , basically I do:

[root@mtheory ~]# /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
Starting syslog-ng

and I see again system info in /var/log/messages

Thanks