F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

[Jim Meyering]

James Antill wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 15:52 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> > I've just realized that I had a list of all packages/versions
>> > that were installed as of a few weeks ago (April 5).
>> > In case it helps:
>> >
>>
>> Yah - the history sqlite file you uploaded has all that info in there (in
>> a round about way) but the problem still is we don't know what
>> precipitated all the erasures.
>>
>> b/c those erasures  are JUST erasures, they aren't the cleanup step of an
>> update.
>>
>> which points me at weird plugin behavior.
>
>  Jim, is it possible you were running with "LANG=C"?

Root's LANG setting was the relatively common default,
but it's overridden by my LC_ALL=C setting:

  $ locale                                                               :
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  LC_CTYPE="C"
  LC_NUMERIC="C"
  LC_TIME="C"
  LC_COLLATE="C"
  LC_MONETARY="C"
  LC_MESSAGES="C"
  LC_PAPER="C"
  LC_NAME="C"
  LC_ADDRESS="C"
  LC_TELEPHONE="C"
  LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
  LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
  LC_ALL=C

>  If so I'm 99% sure I've found the bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585424
> Langpacks goes on crack in LANG=C, for "removals" _and_ "updated",
> removing everything

Nice.  Glad you found the cause/fix.
Thanks!