<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Svist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fry.kun@gmail.com">fry.kun@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 06/12/2010 09:37 AM, Mike Williams wrote:<br>
> Hi there. On a system that recently had a fresh install of f13 I got<br>
> the following message from yum:<br>
> "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider<br>
> running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."<br>
><br>
> When I ran yum-complete-transactions another message appeared:<br>
> "There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one<br>
> The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run"<br>
><br>
> Then after a very long list of packages it wants to remove including:<br>
> bash, yum-utils, and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau it says:<br>
><br>
> Remove 159 Package(s)<br>
><br>
> This sure seems like it will kill the system.<br>
><br>
><br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I did that yesterday and killed my system. I was able to recover after<br>
some hacks with live cd, chroot and yum reinstall -- but definitely<br>
wouldn't recommend to anyone with a weak heart.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>To do a fedora install/reinstall/upgrade:
<div><br></div><div>Have a second computer available and online so you can decrypt the prompts.</div><div><br></div><div>Robert Myers.</div>