Yesterday's rawhide sunk my iBook

Ralf Ertzinger fedora at camperquake.de
Thu Jul 28 17:39:18 UTC 2005


Hi.

Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you have 2 versions installed.. and the latest version was an
> upgrade attempt via yum.. it sounds like there was a problem that
> prevented the cleanup portion of the rpm transaction from completing
> correctly. Was this an automated run of yum while you were afk.. or
> did you happen to watch the output scroll?

I semi-watched it. There were some failed scripts, but nothing glibc
related as far as I recall.

> You might want to look for other duplicate packages which might have
> also failed to cleanup correctly.

There were some of those, but the main cause was glibc. After
reinstalling that I could chroot() into the system again. The
rest will be reinstalled after rebooting.




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