On 03/09/2013 09:36 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > During today's big Centos 6 update I lost my connection to a machine during the > "yum update" and when I logged back in and ran yum update again it told me to > run yum-complete-transaction. When I ran yum-complete-transaction I got > screen after screen of "x is a duplicate with x" where x consists of a huge > list of packages. > > "package-cleanup --dupes" gives me a huge list of packages. > > I think that my next step here should be "package-cleanup --cleandupes" but > when I do that it tells me that it will remove 800-plus mb of files. I suppose > it's the the same list that I get with "package-cleanup --dupes". > > Do I want to do this or will that nuke the operating system? If not, what > should I be doing? > First off ... from now on run yum updates inside a "screen" session. Install with: yum install screen Here is info on sreen: http://library.linode.com/linux-tools/utilities/screen At this point you will need to clean up before you install screen. You might first try the utility yum-complete-transaction: http://www.vmadmin.co.uk/linux/44-redhat/209-linuxyumcomptrans As soon as you get the transaction completed, install screen and ALWAYS do yum updates in a screen or vnc session so that the transaction will complete if you drop the connection. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130310/71997f2d/attachment-0003.sig>