Big problem with an update

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Sat, 25 May 2013 10:27:20 -0400 Frank McCormick
<beacon at videotron.ca> wrote:

> On 05/25/2013 12:44 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 22:35:14 -0400,
> >   Frank McCormick <beacon at videotron.ca> wrote:
> >> I was updating Fedora 19 tonight when my system crashed ( I suspect 
> >> it's a memory error)....but anyway it
> >> now **appears I have a lot of duplicate files on my system, at least 
> >> that what yum check all reports.
> >> The crash happened after the updates had been installed I think 
> >> during the verify stage.
> >
> > Have you tried yum-complete-transaction? That will probably work.
> > You can check things afterwords with package-cleanup --dupes and 
> > package-cleanup --problems.
> >
> 
> 
>      Complete-transaction reported it could not finish and ended up 
> marking the transaction files as invalid.
> It was then I took another users suggestion and ran package-cleanup 
> --dupes. That's what left my partition in
> a partially unbootable state.
> Now I am stumped..it appears only a re-installation would work
> 

Hi,

Not sure if you can boot the machine, but if you are booted into it,
did you try to clean out your cache, etc? 

sudo yum clean all

Does it allow you to do that?

Not sure if this will help.

Ranjan

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