yum update or install fails with error message "<package> was supposed to be installed but is not!"
Issue
- yum update is failing with following error message:
# yum upgrade alsa-utils
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security
Setting up Upgrade Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package alsa-utils.x86_64 0:1.0.22-3.el6 will be updated
---> Package alsa-utils.x86_64 0:1.0.22-5.el6 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Updating:
alsa-utils x86_64 1.0.22-5.el6 rhel-x86_64-server-6 2.0 M
Transaction Summary
===============================================================================================
Upgrade 1 Package(s)
Total size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installed products updated.
alsa-utils-1.0.22-5.el6.x86_64 was supposed to be installed but is not!
Verifying : alsa-utils-1.0.22-5.el6.x86_64 1/2
Verifying : alsa-utils-1.0.22-5.el6.x86_64 2/2
alsa-utils-1.0.22-3.el6.x86_64 was supposed to be removed but is not!
Verifying : alsa-utils-1.0.22-3.el6.x86_64 3/2
Failed:
alsa-utils.x86_64 0:1.0.22-3.el6 alsa-utils.x86_64 0:1.0.22-5.el6
Complete!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- yum
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