You'll want to look into 'yum history' with the 'info' and 'undo' subcommands. Not sure how well it works for larger updates but I've had success on broken packages. On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote: > I was doing an update to 7.4 and somewhere in middle the machine died. > > If I drop back to a previous kernel the machine is alive. So how do I say > "forget the previous yum update" and start all over and do it again. > > Booting into the new kernel I get a kernel fault. So going back one level > on teh boot screen solves that - I just need to start the update again. How > is that? > > Thanks, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- <https://riskanalytics.com/> *Jon Pruente*Systems Engineer Office / 913.685.6530 JPruente at RiskAnalytics.com <jpruente at riskanalytics.com> [image: RiskAnalytics] <https://riskanalytics.com/> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/riskanalytics> [image: LinkedIn] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/riskanalytics-llc> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/riskanalytics?fref=ts> CONFIDENTIAL: The information in this email (and any attachments) is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate the information. Please reply to the sender and take the steps necessary to delete the message completely from your computer system. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by RiskAnalytics, LLC for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use.