Strange error message

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 11:07:29 +1100, Roger wrote:

> I update my Fedora 19 every morning.
> Booting up over the last 3 weeks pops up a peculiar error message: 
> Software update failed to complete
> 
> The dialog says:
> Failed To Update
> the off line update failed in an unexpected way
> Detailed errors from PackageManager follow:
> The transaction did not complete.

That's an unhelpful error message. Unfortunately, there are several places
in the graphical package tools where real "details" are not shown.
Does a manual "yum update" work?
 
>   /var/log/messages shows nothing of note.
> /var/log/boot.log has one error: [FAILED] Failed to start Wait for 
> Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit.

That's annoying many users for a long time. A lot to read here
(including some misleading instructions):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/967521