Hi All:
I am having problems with a CentOS 6.4 box that I was in the process of doing a yum update to 6.5. Unfortunately the system hung during the update and I was forced to reboot it and it is now a bit of a mess. Can someone point me in the direction of any documentation that would assist in the recovering from this.
TIA
Regards, Hugh
On 12/04/2013 11:34 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
Hi All:
I am having problems with a CentOS 6.4 box that I was in the process of doing a yum update to 6.5. Unfortunately the system hung during the update and I was forced to reboot it and it is now a bit of a mess. Can someone point me in the direction of any documentation that would assist in the recovering from this.
Run yum-complete-transaction.
Source: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-September/msg00984.html
- Jitse
FromJitse Klomp Sent: December 4, 2013 14:47
On 12/04/2013 11:34 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
I am having problems with a CentOS 6.4 box that I was in the process of doing a yum update to 6.5. Unfortunately the system hung during the update and I was forced to reboot it and it is now a bit of a mess. Can someone point me in the direction of any documentation that would assist in the recovering from this.
Run yum-complete-transaction.
Tried that but it failed. I am now seriously looking at manually deleting and/or reinstalling a large number of packages but I was hoping that there might be some recommended procedures available "out there" that might be easier.
TIA
Regards, Hugh
From: Frank Cox Sent: December 4, 2013 15:04
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:55:03 -0800 Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
Tried that but it failed.
Describe "failed".
That happened yesterday and I can not recall specifically what it said. I am currently in the process of backing up the hard drive before proceeding any further. I will see if I can get the error a little later today.
Regards, Hugh
From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: December 4, 2013 15:09
From: Frank Cox Sent: December 4, 2013 15:04
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:55:03 -0800 Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
Tried that but it failed.
Describe "failed".
That happened yesterday and I can not recall specifically what it said. I am currently in the process of backing up the hard drive before proceeding any further. I will see if I can get the error a little later today.
Well I am unable to locate the error message as it does not appear to be logged. In the interim I have done a lot more research and I now suspect that I have two separate problems:
1. Since the yum update did not complete then it never had a chance to update the rpm database,
2. We probably have one or more packages that have been install but the predecessor has not be removed.
I have done the following:
a. Rebuilt the rpm database:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb
b. I then retried the yum update this aborted report conflicts in systemtap packages.
c. I listed the installed systemtap packages:
rpm -qa | grep systemtap | sort
This revealed that there were two systemtap-devel packages installed and I removed the newer one.
d. I then retried yum update and this appeared to work fine until it got to:
Cleanup : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.1-3.el6.x86_64 286/513
At this point the system appears to be hung. I can not proceed any further this evening as I am working on this from home and I do not have physical access to the server to reboot it. In the morning I will reboot the server and try again but this time I am going to do a "yum clean all" to the rpm database rebuild.
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
That's al for now.
Regards, Hugh
On Wed, 2013-12-04 at 20:32 -0800, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
From: Hugh E Cruickshank Sent: December 4, 2013 15:09
From: Frank Cox Sent: December 4, 2013 15:04
On Wed, 4 Dec 2013 14:55:03 -0800 Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
Tried that but it failed.
Describe "failed".
That happened yesterday and I can not recall specifically what it said. I am currently in the process of backing up the hard drive before proceeding any further. I will see if I can get the error a little later today.
Well I am unable to locate the error message as it does not appear to be logged. In the interim I have done a lot more research and I now suspect that I have two separate problems:
Since the yum update did not complete then it never had a chance to update the rpm database,
We probably have one or more packages that have been install but the predecessor has not be removed.
I have done the following:
a. Rebuilt the rpm database:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddbb. I then retried the yum update this aborted report conflicts in systemtap packages.
c. I listed the installed systemtap packages:
rpm -qa | grep systemtap | sort
This revealed that there were two systemtap-devel packages installed and I removed the newer one.
d. I then retried yum update and this appeared to work fine until it got to:
Cleanup : 1:xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.1-3.el6.x86_64 286/513
At this point the system appears to be hung. I can not proceed any further this evening as I am working on this from home and I do not have physical access to the server to reboot it. In the morning I will reboot the server and try again but this time I am going to do a "yum clean all" to the rpm database rebuild.
Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated.
Try package-cleanup --problems and see what it returns package-cleanup --cleandupes may helps with removal of duplicates
Louis
From: Louis Lagendijk Sent: December 5, 2013 13:37
Try package-cleanup --problems and see what it returns package-cleanup --cleandupes may helps with removal of duplicates
I jut finished cleaning it all up. It took a while and I ended up with having to manually identify and delete a bout 40 duplicate packages (your suggestions would probably have helped with that). It was also necessary to reinstall the kernel packages but everything seems to be humming along fine now (and up to date as well).
Thanks to all who provides feedback and suggestions.
Regards, Hugh
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank hugh@forsoft.com wrote:
That happened yesterday and I can not recall specifically what it said. I am currently in the process of backing up the hard drive before proceeding any further. I will see if I can get the error a little later today.
Sometimes 'yum-complete-transaction' will fix things - but yum will normally tell you if it needs that. You can 'yum install yum-utils' if you don't already have it.
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