Did you try rebuilding the rpm database? rpmdb --rebuilddb but look at all the options first. Just a thought.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Barry Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > */ > -- Thanks, Lance Grover http://www.groverfamily.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
