On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:37 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 15:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > >> Once yum is basically working you might be able to > >> yum install yum-utils > >> and > >> yum-complete-transaction > >> to pick up where you left off. I had to do this on one box where the > >> update process kicked me off and died with a bunch of duplicate packages > >> still in the rpm database. > > ---- > > me too...punished for not using screen to update. > > I sort-of expected yum to be smart enough to trap sighup's during > transactions. And I think the connection broke because the process > underneath died - so screen would probably have croaked too. > > > yum-complete-transaction actually required a leap of faith because there > > were hundreds of packages it wanted to remove ;-) > > Same here... I did do a sanity check with rpm -q package for some of > them to see that two versions were actually there (or rpm thought there > were). ---- well interesting...so it probably wouldn't have mattered if I had used screen. This only happened on one of the servers that I updated and it is possible that I didn't update glibc first...it was one of the last systems I updated so I may have been too cavalier about the process. The first few I carefully updated glibc first, then yum and then finally the rest. And yes, when yum-complete-transaction is telling you it is removing like 500 packages, you do a double and triple take, start checking the packages it intends to remove to make certain that it will leave a new version but still, I wasn't going to check everything so I eventually had to make the leap. While the updates don't always go perfectly, especially when one gets lackadaisical, the yum-tools seem to clean up behind you pretty well. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.