After noticing unfixable EXT3 corruption yesterday on my Centos4 system, (kernel panics), which I eventually traced down to bad memory, I decided to restore my system partition from a backup back in May. (luckily, my user data doesn't seem to be affected, and was on a different partition).
Obviously, there were a lot of updates that needed to be made. I started yum off before bed, there being 377 meg worth of downloads.
This morning, after the reboot, I realized it was still using the old kernel from May. Ran yum again for the remaining 31 meg of downloads. Didn't work.
rpm doesn't seem to work properly anymore, can't install any of these remaining updates, and can't even remove some of the older, unneeded, kernels anymore.
The error output of my yum and the standalone rpm error output is attached. I've already tried a rebuilddb command on the rpm database without any noticable benefit.
Any help would be appreciated. I would really like to avoid doing a fresh install.
Thanks.