yum-complete-transaction wants to remove 159 packages

[Robert Myers]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Konstantin Svist <fry.kun at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/12/2010 09:37 AM, Mike Williams wrote:
> > Hi there.  On a system that recently had a fresh install of f13 I got
> > the following message from yum:
> > "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider
> > running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."
> >
> > When I ran yum-complete-transactions another message appeared:
> > "There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most
> recent one
> > The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run"
> >
> > Then after a very long list of packages it wants to remove including:
> > bash, yum-utils, and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau it says:
> >
> > Remove      159 Package(s)
> >
> > This sure seems like it will kill the system.
> >
> >
>
>
> I did that yesterday and killed my system. I was able to recover after
> some hacks with live cd, chroot and yum reinstall -- but definitely
> wouldn't recommend to anyone with a weak heart.
>
>
To do a fedora install/reinstall/upgrade:

Have a second computer available and online so you can decrypt the prompts.

Robert Myers.
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