System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

Deron Meranda deron.meranda at gmail.com
Sun Nov 20 00:45:14 UTC 2011


I have run an rpm verify against all of the packages that were part of
the crashed yum update:

at-3.1.13-5.fc16.x86_64
bind-libs-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16.x86_64
bind-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16.x86_64
bind-license-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16.noarch
facter-1.6.2-1.fc16.noarch
kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64
kernel-headers-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64
kernel-tools-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64
nfs-utils-1.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64
perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.49-1.fc16.noarch
setroubleshoot-plugins-3.0.17-1.fc16.noarch
xfwm4-4.8.2-1.fc16.x86_64


Most of them show no discrepancies, except for "bind" and "kernel".
The one bind problem is just the ownership/permissions on the
/usr/lib64/bind/ directory.

But the kernel verify has lots of problems, all with size/MD5
mismatches. When I look at the individual files, almost all of them
are zero-length on my disk. I checked disk space, and there is plenty
of empty space in both / and /boot.


Even for the packages which verify fine, I still have two versions of
the packages installed (as reported by rpm -qi)  - the previous
version and the new version. Obviously yum never got around to the
cleanup phase where it deleted the old versions.

How can I clean all this up?  I tried just re-running the yum update
on the specific packages, but it complains, such as:

   Error: Protected multilib versions: at-3.1.13-5.fc16.x86_64 !=
at-3.1.13-3.fc16.x86_64


Thanks again for any assistance.
-- 
Deron Meranda
http://deron.meranda.us/


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