[CentOS] Eeek, my centos6 box won't boot after broken update, need help w/ yum
wwp
subscript at free.fr
Thu Feb 9 07:26:16 UTC 2012
Hello Louis,
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:23:35 +0100 Louis Lagendijk <louis at lagendijk.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 15:22 +0100, wwp wrote:
> > Hello Ljubomir,
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:06:44 +0100 Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
> >
> > > On 02/08/2012 11:32 AM, wwp wrote:
> > > > Hello there,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I think I've shutdown my box right in the middle of a yum update.. The
> > > > latest kernel installed won't simple boot, and the old one can, but
> > > > only in init 3 mode (tty).
> > > >
> > > > From a console, I wanted to complete the yum update and it suggested me
> > > > to do a `yum-complete-transaction`.
> > > >
> > > > yum-complete-transaction tells me that 447 elements are left to run in 1
> > > > transaction, runs and show lots of "Removing<packagename> - ud from
> > > > the transaction" then processes lots of stuff, and ends with listing
> > > > lots of duplicate packages (mostly Xorg stuff) and.. and that's all.
> > > > Same stuff if I start that command again.
> > > >
> > > > A `yum cleanup` doesn't change it.
> > > >
> > > > Any hint how I could get of that deadly loop?
> > > >
> > >
> > > "yum history list" will give you of last yum transaction (highest
> > > number). Use that number in:
> > >
> > > "yum history undo <number>", "yum history redo <number>" or "yum history
> > > rollback <number>"
> > >
> > > Read "man yum" for differences between commands if necessary.
> >
> > Hm. Since I use CentOS (was using Fedora before) I discover some yum
> > advanced features, thanks for teaching me, Ljubomir :-).
>
> You may want to try the package-cleanup command.
> package-cleanup --problems could be the first thing to try
Nice try, but this command reports "No Problems Found".
Regards,
--
wwp
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