On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:43:15PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
On 05/24/2013 11:35 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Frank McCormick beacon@videotron.ca wrote:
I was updating Fedora 19 tonight when my system crashed
Try
package-cleanup --dupes
Thanks anyway for the suggestion - it seems it's about the only thing that could be done under the circumstances
Not exactly! First you have to finish messed up upgrade, by whatever means necessary, and make sure that results are sane and bootable. Only then you are running 'package-cleanup --cleandupes'. I did such recovery procedures on quite few occassions and they work fine but you need to be careful about what you are doing.
Yet another possibility is to use '--justdb' rpm option to bring your rpm database to a pre-upgrade state and run an upgrade once again. Seems tad safer than moving with '--justdb' in another direction and makes sure that you are not left with unresolved dependencies.
Michal