[CentOS] Issue updating to 7.6

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 12:06, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all... Great work on 7.6!
>
> I updated a number of boxes - all good! This "one" server I lost connection
> through the internet or something... Anyway 702 transactions left and its
> not happy. When I run yum-complete-transaction I get "many"
>
> Removing man-db.x86_64 0:2.6.3-9.el7 - ud from the transaction
> Removing man-db.x86_64 0:2.6.3-11.el7 - u from the transaction
> Removing python-ethtool.x86_64 0:0.8-5.el7 - ud from the transaction
> Removing python-ethtool.x86_64 0:0.8-7.el7 - u from the transaction
> Removing iprutils.x86_64 0:2.4.15.1-1.el7 - ud from the transaction
> Removing iprutils.x86_64 0:2.4.16.1-1.el7 - u from the transaction
> Removing strace.x86_64 0:4.12-6.el7 - ud from the transaction
> Removing strace.x86_64 0:4.12-9.el7 - u from the transaction
>
> and then nothing happens.... (This is just a short list) many are printed.
>
> Thoughts? What next?

I had a spurious problem on updating large number of packages which
would cause a similar problem. I needed to break the update on these
systems into 2 transactions:
1. yum update --skip-broken --exclude="gdm*" --exclude="java-1.7.0"
--exclude="NetworkManager*" --exclude="ModemManager*"
2. yum update

Not every system did this and there didn't seem to be a rhyme or
reason on why it happened for the ones I ran into it (plenty of
memory, plenty of CPU, etc etc)

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Stephen J Smoogen.