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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