A few weeks ago we had a brief power outage here in Orem, and the one computer in my house that's not on a UPS was in the middle of a big 'yum upgrade' Now lots of things are broken, and I can't get it fixed, and I don't really want to re-format and re-install (so Windowsy, ew), but that's about what I'm down to.
'yum-complete-transaction' would just hang and not do anything for hours, so I finally ran it with '--cleanup-only' No Qt programs work because of incompatible library issues, but the real problem is yum won't do anything because there are tons of duplicates, or so it thinks. If I try to 'package-cleanup --clean-dupes' it fails because it thinks it needs to remove systemd, yum, and the kernel. I've also done 'yum clean all' and tried to 'yum history rollback' the botched transaction, but that fails also. I don't remember the exact error. I tried to get yumdownloader to just download the latest rpms so I could install them with 'rpm -Uvh --force', but yumdownloader fails because of all the duplicates. I've exhausted my knowledge of yum/rpm and google. Anybody got any suggestions before backup, format, and re-install? Thanks, Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
