yum not working properly

utkarshl · #1 11th March 2010, 04:20 AM

whenever i start package manager, i am getting following message :
Error Type: <class 'packagekit.backend.PkError'>
Error Value: 'failed-initialization: There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.'
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3235, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3232, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 699, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 569, in dispatch_command
self.get_repo_list(filters)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2451, in get_repo_list
self._check_init()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2795, in _check_init
raise PkError(ERROR_FAILED_INITIALIZATION, 'There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.')

also since 3 or 4 days the following message pops up automatically nearly every half hour (attached image):
failed to initialize packaging backend.
this may occur if you are using other packaging tools simultaneously.
more details:
There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.

when i run yum-complete-transaction, i get the following message:

[utkarsh@Coder-lappy ~]$ yum-complete-transaction
Command not found.
* Waiting in queue.. Install package 'yum-utils' to provide command 'yum-complete-transaction'? [N/y]
* Installing packages..
* Getting information..

* Waiting for authentication.. The transaction failed: failed-initialization, There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.
[utkarsh@Coder-lappy ~]$

let me tell that i used to use yum-complete-transaction quite often, so it is improbable that i do have yum-utils installed . pakage manager reports that it is already installed.
i am not able to install any package.
please help.

***Hlingler*** · #2 11th March 2010, 04:25 AM

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=240072

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leigh123linux · #3 11th March 2010, 12:18 PM

Moved to general support

please don't post questions to the Guides & Solutions (No Questions) again

markkuk · #4 11th March 2010, 01:28 PM

The messages tell you to run yum-complete-transaction as root, but you are trying to run it as regular user. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.

jamesjpn · #5 13th March 2010, 04:52 AM

I've been getting the error message of "There are unfinished transactions remaining" from Package Kit, Yum and Yumex.

I ran as root:

yum-complete-transaction

But the output is:

"No unfinished transactions left."

However yum, yumex and package kit still tells me even after running "yum-complete-transaction" that I have unfinished transactions!!

The "yum clean all" command doesn't fix it. What gives? I searched this forum but can't seem to find anybody else with this problem. Can somebody help me please?

***Hlingler*** · #6 13th March 2010, 05:01 AM

Try:
su
yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only
[...]
yum clean all

See if that makes the messages go away. You might also want to check out:
su
package-cleanup --dupes
package-cleanup --problems

V

P.S. I recall seeing this same question recently... .

jamesjpn · #7 13th March 2010, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Try:
su
yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only
[...]
yum clean all

See if that makes the messages go away. You might also want to check out:
su
package-cleanup --dupes
package-cleanup --problems

V

P.S. I recall seeing this same question recently... .

Thank you so much for your help!

yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only doesn't fix it.
Neither does yum clean all
package-cleanup --problems reports no problems.
However, the output of package-cleanup --dupes is:

samba-3.4.6-57.fc12.x86_64
samba-3.4.7-58.fc12.x86_64
libsmbclient-3.4.7-58.fc12.x86_64
libsmbclient-3.4.6-57.fc12.x86_64
tzdata-2010c-1.fc12.noarch
tzdata-2010e-1.fc12.noarch
samba-common-3.4.7-58.fc12.x86_64
samba-common-3.4.6-57.fc12.x86_64
tzdata-java-2010c-1.fc12.noarch
tzdata-java-2010e-1.fc12.noarch
samba-winbind-clients-3.4.6-57.fc12.x86_64
samba-winbind-clients-3.4.7-58.fc12.x86_64
samba-client-3.4.6-57.fc12.x86_64
samba-client-3.4.7-58.fc12.x86_64

What to do now? Shall I try to use yum to remove the older version of each one?

mouse_runner · #8 13th March 2010, 10:37 AM

did you try as root

Code:

yum-complete-transaction

jamesjpn · #9 13th March 2010, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mouse_runner

did you try as root

Code:

yum-complete-transaction

Yes, I did. The output:

[root@phenom9350 jamesjp]# yum-complete-transaction
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
No unfinished transactions left.

What I did do was to to follow Mr. Hlingler's lead, ran

package-cleanup --dupes

Uninstalled all those packages, and re-installed the ones I needed. Dupes are now gone.

I still got a dependency problem from from abrt when I tried to update. And so I removed abrt with yum. No more dependency problem and I can do updates now.

However I still get the message "There are unfinished transactions remaining" from Package kit, and so I disabled Package kit from session startup. That fixed the problem, at least the symptom of the problem.

And so even though Package kit will not notify me of updates anymore, I will do a manual update once a week from now on till Fedora 13 comes out. and then I'll do a fresh install with Fedora 13. Problem solved for sure by then.

Thank you for your feedback!

utkarshl · #10 21st March 2010, 08:25 AM

I tried all the above suggestions (as root) , namely

yum update : which did update but the problem was not resolved

[root@Coder-lappy utkaarsh]# yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only
Command not found. Install package 'yum-utils' to provide command 'yum-complete-transaction'? [N/y] Failed to install packages: could not do simulate: There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.

package-cleanup --dupes : reported nothing
package-cleanup --problems : reported nothing

I still keep getting the error at some interval of time as "failed to initialize packaging backend " and "run yum-complete-install"

but yum-complete-install has the same response as "yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only " command above

i am not able to use package manager "add/remove software" to install/unistall packages
when i start package manager, i get the error:

Error Type: <class 'packagekit.backend.PkError'>
Error Value: 'failed-initialization: There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.'
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3247, in <module>
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3244, in main
backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 699, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 569, in dispatch_command
self.get_repo_list(filters)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2522, in get_repo_list
self._check_init()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2807, in _check_init
raise PkError(ERROR_FAILED_INITIALIZATION, 'There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.')

Please somebody help

marko · #11 21st March 2010, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by utkarshl

I tried all the above suggestions (as root) , namely

yum update : which did update but the problem was not resolved

[root@Coder-lappy utkaarsh]# yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only
Command not found. Install package 'yum-utils' to provide command 'yum-complete-transaction'? [N/y] Failed to install packages: could not do simulate: There are unfinished transactions remaining. Please run yum-complete-transaction as root.

So did you do what it suggested you do? That is, yum install yum-utils
so you have yum-complete-transaction so you can actually run
yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only

utkarshl · #12 21st March 2010, 07:18 PM

yes i did that but the same result : you have incomplete transactions - run yum-complete-transaction...
and yum-complete-transaction won't work

---------- Post added at 11:48 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 05:00 PM CDT ----------

Please, does nobody have any solution to the problem i am facing ?

kyle775 · #13 22nd March 2010, 06:39 AM

i have recently been experiencing an identical issue.
nothing will stop this message from appearing, save disabling Package Kit

JetmechAl · #14 25th March 2010, 05:51 PM

exact same Problem here.

found the same issue occurred on Fedora 11 in testing
see link httP://n2.nabble.com/yum-comPlete-tr...td1641595.html.

bug rePorted on Bugzilla- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571025.

May have to wait for a new release of yum-utils......

Mines a new dvd install i686.PAE.

Yum version yum-3.2.25-1.fc12.noarch

Would it be recomended to uninstall yum-utils to get rpm's loaded?????
as a temporary solution.

JetmechAl · #15 26th April 2010, 06:02 PM

From another thread.
Found that adding "80.239.156.215 mirrors.fedoraproject.org" to my /etc/hosts file (opened with "gedit /etc/hosts" in terminal window as root user "su -" and then your root password) worked for me just great and easy.
Only in doing it under root credentials will you see the save button in solid color allowing you to overwrite this file.

thanks to the great community.