Re: [nlug] CentOS "yum" problem

2019-03-02 Thread Chris McQuistion
Thanks John! This fixed one system, but not the other :-( With some help in IRC, I was able to figure out that screenconnect had a running service in /etc/init.d After rebooting and stopping that service manually, I was able to remove it without yum just sitting there. On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at

Re: [nlug] CentOS "yum" problem

2019-03-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 09:43:41PM -0600, Chris McQuistion wrote: > > "Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum." This is merely an indication that someone or something ran a manual rpm operation that updated the databases outside of yum's tracking. This will resolve the next time yum updates its

[nlug] CentOS "yum" problem

2019-03-01 Thread Chris McQuistion
I've inherited some CentOS 7 systems and two of them are giving me this baffling problem. I'm trying to install some software and install updates and I keep getting the following error when I'm trying to do a "yum remove packagename" operation. It seems to just get stuck on this message and stay