On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 09:20 +0200, Robin Lee wrote: > Today when I ran yum update two packages came up microcode_ctl > and unbound-libs. The updating process went fine until it outputted > > Running transaction > Updating : 2:microcode_ctl-2.1-61.6.el7_8.x86_64 > > then it just froze. I could no longer ssh to the machine and the > console was just blank. I had to shut down it hard. It came back up > seemingly fine. But yum update doesn't work anymore. It says "Error > importing repomd.xml from base/7/x86_64: Damaged repomd.xml file" > I looked at the logs, but journalctl only shows the latest boot on > this > machine. > > So I guess I have three questions > - Any idea what happened with the update process? > - How can I repair repomd.xml? Now that yum is up and running again it tells me the following "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction, or "yum-complete-transaction -- cleanup-only" and "yum history redo last", first to finish them. If those don't work you'll have to try removing/installing packages by hand (maybe package-cleanup can help)." Doing "yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only" should be safe, right? To clean up the botched microcode_ctl update and after that set it among excluded packages. /Robin