On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Dan Roberts dan@jlazyh.com wrote:
Hey there -
This morning I ran the yum updater through Webmin as I do every month or so - after about two hours I realized that I still had the same updating screen going - and no response. Seemed strange.
So you probably missed the notes and announcements about the 5.3 release, as well as the release notes about upgrade hiccups. There are also quite a few updates here, so the update will take some time to run.
Simple attempts to kill it didn't work so I sent a command to reboot the system - that seemed to work, till I turned on the monitor directly connected to the server -
Updating via webmin may not be the best approach, as some things may update which could impact webmin.
I saw this error go by - and then only a spinning cursor - never get to a login screen. (I power cycled again and saw it go by again - and recognized it when I tried again at Webmin and through a terminal connection).
Power cycling a system should be considered a last-resort option, not a method for troubleshooting.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 29, in ? import cli File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 30, in ? import output File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 26, in ? from i18n import _ ImportError: No module named i18n
I deleted the yum cash and no improvement. I tried the yum clean and no imporvement [root@trailrunner yum]# yum clean all Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 28, in ? import yummain File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 29, in ? import cli File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 30, in ? import output File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 26, in ? from i18n import _ ImportError: No module named i18n [root@trailrunner yum]#
Not at all sure what happened or why, or where I even start trying to straighten this mess out.
For systems which experienced issues moving from 5.2 to 5.3, a 'yum clean all' resolved the majority of issues.
How do I blow away the apparent yum junk in the hope of getting a local login capability back?
Yum doesn't have anything to do with logging into the system at all. I'm not sure why you think this would help. However as previously stated a 'yum clean all' should 'blow away' the yum bits. Further nuking yum transactions is not to be done lightly, and requires the yum-utils package to be installed. We'll go over that command later if we have to.
How or what should I do to reset yum - seems reinstalling the latest version is probably the route. What is the version that CentOS uses? Should I go the RPM route or try something more specific?
Totally unexpected problem and leaving me feeling very uncertain about things.
Please subscribe to the Centos-Announce list. You got blind-sided by a very public release because you only update every month or so, and don't generally follow updates in a manner most admins would consider 'good practice'. I believe that had you been aware of the 5.3 release, you would have been a bit more careful in things.