F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Frank Murphy wrote:
>>>> On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>>>> There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite
>>>>> BZ-attached here:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997
>>>>
>>>> Read up on:
>>>> yum-plugin-protect-packages
>>>>
>>>> if your going on autopilot.
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Installed.
>>> IMHO, one should always be able to run "yum -y update" without fear
>>> of such damage.  Maybe that's naive, but with the exception of
>>> yesterday's run, it's worked for me for more than two years of
>>> rawhide and F10..F13.
>>
>> except we don't know what happened yesterday.
>>
>> You didn't happen to keep the depsolving output on the console did you?
>
> I wish I'd been that prescient.
>
> As mentioned, when I came back after the offending
> command had finished, all I could see in all terminal consoles
> were little rectangles in place of text.  So while I could
> have saved it to file via "screen" (as long it was still within
> the 30k scrollback), I didn't think to do that.
>
>> Also - were there any plugins installed?
>
> I think yum-fastestmirror was installed.
> Other than that, no.

langpacks was installed, too.
But given the history db and w/o any other output - I think we're going to 
be hardpressed to figure out what happened.

-sv