[CentOS] Problem after crash during yum update

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Dec 20 12:13:23 UTC 2007


Alfred von Campe wrote:
> I was doing a "yum -y update" on a CentOS 4.5 system to get to 4.6 when
> my system froze.  I couldn't ping it nor switch to an alternate
> console.  It was completely frozen.  The only recourse was to cycle the
> power.  So I did that, and now when I try to do a "yum update" I get the
> following error:

install yum-utils, and run package-cleanup, use that to clear the rpmdb
out and rerun the yum update

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