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
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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com