Big problem with an update

[Frank McCormick]

On 05/25/2013 10:34 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> 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
>



     The partition only boots to a sh-42 prompt - it appears some system 
files are
missing after package cleanup.

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