[Mageia-discuss] urpmi failures at update

[Len Lawrence]

I have hit a problem with urpmi.  Something in the system has been
corrupted.  After a lot of downloads using the wireless adapter I
switched to a wired connection because wireless kept dropping out
unpredictably.  After a while continuing with installations urpmi
reckoned that the database needed updating.  Did not know how to do
that so tried urpmi --auto-update and ended up with the following
errors:

The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded:
basesystem-2-6.mga2.x86_64
  (due to missing basesystem-minimal)
basesystem-minimal-2-6.mga2.x86_64
  (due to unsatisfied mageia-release >= 1)
drakconf-12.26-1.mga2.noarch
  (due to missing mageia-release)
mageia-release-Default-2-0.7.mga2.x86_64
  (due to missing mageia-release-common(lib64))
mageia-release-common-2-0.7.mga2.x86_64
  (due to conflicts with kernel-desktop-3.3.3-1.mga2-1-1.mga2.i586)
rpm-build-4.9.1.3-2.mga2.x86_64
  (due to unsatisfied rpm-mageia-setup-build >= 1.34)
rpm-mageia-setup-build-1.147-6.mga2.x86_64
  (due to missing mageia-release)

urpmi reports that basesystem-minimal is already installed if I try to
install it and the same with other components.  Is there any way to
recover from this situation or do I have to reinstall?

Help!