PackageKit has eaten my system (again!)
Kevin Fenzi
kevin at scrye.com
Sun Dec 21 05:18:22 UTC 2008
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:36:30 +0100
DB <Freddog_de at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Evening all,
>
> I just did the latest batch of F9 PackageKit updates - with
> disastrous effect! (See attached list)
Quite strange. How did you apply those updates?
PackageKit? yum? With what command?
Is there anything non standard in your /etc/yum.conf ?
Can you attach it, or the /etc/yum.conf.rpmsave file?
> I think (!) RPM is still working but Packagekit & yum amongst (many)
> others have gone. I've tried to re enable the rpmfusion reps & rpm
> tells me that the latest ones are installed:
> [root at localhost ~]# su -c 'rpm -Uvh
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
> Retrieving
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
> Retrieving
> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
> package rpmfusion-free-release-9-12.noarch (which is newer than
> rpmfusion-free-release-8-6.noarch) is already installed
> package rpmfusion-nonfree-release-9-12.noarch (which is newer
> than rpmfusion-nonfree-release-8-6.noarch) is already installed
> [root at localhost ~]#
>
> Any suggestions as to the best way to recover the packages PK scoffed
> - especially yum and/or PackageKit?
>
> I did look at trying a 'rescue' or 'install/upgrade' from the install
> CD, but I'm totally unsure how to go about getting the "missing
> links" back into my system.
>
> Any help gratefully received! (And this time I promise to change the
> title of any replies away from the Digest No & date!!!!!!)
You can try (if you have a i386 install):
rpm -ivh
http://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/updates/9/i386.newkey//yum-3.2.20-5.fc9.noarch.rpm
And that should hopefully get you yum back.
Then you should be able to 'yum install' all the other items you are
missing.
I would sure like to know how and why it removed packages however.
> Thanks
>
> Dave
kevin
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