Yum upgrade damage 3 of my systems yesterday

Andre Costa andre.ocosta at terra.com.br
Sat Nov 25 23:12:12 UTC 2006


Hi Julian,

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:44:29 +0000
"Julian Rios" <jrios at sapian.org> wrote:

> I can't restore my systems !!! help !!!
> 
> Yesterday i probed with:
> 
> 1. Reinstall NVIDIA driver (from vendor and last version that work
> perfectly) - Result: Nothing.
> 
> 2. Rebuild RPM database - Result: Nothing
> 
> 3. Uninstall packages related to xfs, and ALL fonts of the system.
> Then, i install them again. - Result: Nothing
> 
> 4. Search in Google for: (bad font path descriptor) error from XFS:
> Incredible but google not have info about this !!!!
> 
> 5. I desesperate !
> 
> 6. I am sure, the yum upgrade cause the problem, is not coinsidence
> that 3 of my systems damage with the same update !!!!

It's easy to see what has been updated lately (either by yum or any
other way). Just do this:

rpm -qa --last | less

You will see all package upgrades with a timestamp, in reverse
chronological order, like this:

~ rpm -qa --last
pstoedit-3.44-5.fc6                           Sat 25 Nov 2006 04:52:46 PM BRST
fedora-package-config-apt-6-5                 Sat 25 Nov 2006 04:52:45 PM BRST
apt-0.5.15lorg3.2-8.fc6                       Sat 25 Nov 2006 04:52:14 PM BRST
normalize-0.7.7-4.fc6.rf                      Sat 25 Nov 2006 04:52:10 PM BRST
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.10-1.fc6          Thu 23 Nov 2006 10:04:46 PM BRST
id3lib-devel-3.8.3-15.fc6                     Thu 23 Nov 2006 10:04:40 PM BRST
nspr-devel-4.6.4-0.6.fc6                      Thu 23 Nov 2006 10:04:36 PM BRST
gtk2-devel-2.10.4-5.fc6                       Thu 23 Nov 2006 10:04:26 PM BRST
gstreamer-0.10.10-2.fc6                       Thu 23 Nov 2006 10:04:21 PM BRST
ImageMagick-c++-6.2.8.0-3.fc6.1               Thu 23 Nov 2006 10:04:19 PM BRST
...

This will show you what has changed, and will help us help you ;-)

HTH

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa




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