Yum broke in transaction, how to restore system?

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Sat Dec 22 13:16:00 UTC 2007


Linus Walleij wrote:
> I had yum breaking in the middle of a transaction yesterday (kernel post 
> scriptlet failed) so now some packages were installed but no "clean up" 
> was done.
> 
> Is there some archaic way of resolving this and run just the cleanups 
> post-mortem? I never understood this quite, and yum manpage is not very 
> helpful to unexpected situations...
> 
> Actually this happening so seldom is an indication of how good yum 
> actually is, so me not knowing the answer already is a GoodThing(TM).

package-cleanup did it for me

# yum -y install yum-utils
# package-cleanup --cleandupes

then check
# package-cleanup --problems




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