Big problem with an update

[Frank McCormick]

On 05/25/2013 12:32 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 23:01 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
>> I am a relative newcomer to Fedora (I'm a Debian refugee) so my
>> knowledge of yum at the moment is pretty minimal.
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on how this can be fixed? The system
>> still boots fine
> FWIW, the few times I got stuck in a case like that, I rpm -V'ed the
> newer dupes, and if that resulted in an OK, you can do this:
>
> rpm -e --justdb --noscripts (older version)
>
> what that basically does is simply remove the entry from the RPM
> database without running any scriptlets or actually deleting any files
> from the filesystem.


    I wish now had waited rather than running tum complete transaction ( 
which it never did) as it
ended up marking the transaction files as invalid. It was then I ran 
package cleanup and that's
what left my partition unbootable.
Thanks for the suggestions anyway :)




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