On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Somewhere in the process of doing a yum update from a terminal window
>> open in an NX/freenx desktop session, the whole session blew up -
>> perhaps when ssh restarted or when freenx was updated. The yum update
>> did not complete beyond that point and the session was gone when I
>> reconnected. Is that supposed to happen? (Centos 5.x)
>
> Yes, it does happen. For more details, please see (warning, very long
> thread):
>
> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=17166&forum=37
>
> If you now have a broken rpm database because of the interrupted yum
> session, the thread has a remedy for that.
OK, that long thread caused a headache for someone (can't tell you
who), so I'm going to give you a shortcut.
Run the command:
rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME} %{ARCH}\n" | sort | uniq -c | awk '$1 != 1 {
print $2 }' | sort
If the output shows anything other than gpg-pubkey or kernel*, then
your rpm database is most likely broken. Go to #45 of that thread.
The OP nicely summarized the procedure to fix it.
Akemi / toracat
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