Les Mikesell wrote:
I've had yum sessions fail (probably mostly from starting them in a freenx session...) but never to the point where yum-complete-transaction did not fix it, so I don't have a good feeling for what is actually happening. However, I wouldn't expect a forced install of any reasonably close glibc version to break anything.
You're tempting me! Actually, it would be silly of me to try, as the server is running fine at the moment, sending back pictures and watering the garden.
what is your plan if the drives or motherboard fails? Worst case software wise won't be any worse than that.
That would only be slightly worse, as I do have a spare machine in the other place. But it's years since I had a motherboard go sick. Does that happen less than it used to?
I do have Fedora-16 and Windows XP on the machine, and was thinking of a complicated system to re-boot into Fedora if CentOS failed.