On Thursday 23 January 2020 15:22:32 Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > > > Before you try the update again, you'll have to fix the reason for the > > failure - add memory, or at least add a swap file. > > > > You could check with > > rpm -qa --last | head -20 > > which the latest packages are that were installed. > > > > If the rpm database is corrupted, rebuild it with > > rpm --rebuilddb > > > > You can reinstall packages that may not be completely installed, using > > rpm --reinstall PACKAGE_FILE > > Well, there may be more to check and above steps may not help. > > Do you have duplicates in rpmdb? Which one of the duplicates are already > on the filesystem? I do not believe that I have any duplicate RPM's installed, and I do not believe that the database is actually wrong. I believe that it is purely that the installs did not complete successfully. I have managed to remove the latest kernel RPM and 'yum update kernel*' re-applied the update without errors. I am going to go through the list of failed RPM's and to a 'rpm --reinstall' for each one in turn and hopefully they will work too. Before doing that I will do as Kay suggested and find out why I had the memory problem in the first place.