F22: Interrupted system update

[Germán A. Racca]

On 10/27/2015 09:28 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Germán A. Racca writes:
>
>> Hi guys, I have this situation: I was updating my Fedora 22 at the
>> university, but there was a power outage and the update didn't finish.
>> Hopefully, I was able to boot the machine and even to login into
>> Gnome, but now it is impossible to continue with the update using dnf
>> upgrade.
>>
>> I tried package-cleanup --cleandupes, but it didn't work because it
>> wanted to remove systemd and dnf, which are protected packages and are
>> duplicated.
>>
>> Running dnf remove $(dnf repoquery --duplicated --latest-limit -1 -q)
>> also gives the same result: "Error: The operation would result in
>> removing the following protected packages: systemd, dnf".
>>
>> My question is: can I safely remove the lower versions of systemd and
>> dnf with rpm -e and then proceed with cleaning duplicates and continue
>> to update in the usual way, or how should I proceed?
>
> Before you can even think of repairing the software package set, you
> need to verify the integrity of your filesystem and the RPM database.
>
> touch /forcefsck
>
> then reboot. The reboot will fsck all your partitions. Trying to fix
> your software packages is a wasted effort, if you discover later that
> your filesystem is corrupt.
>
> After the reboot, run
>
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
> to rebuild the rpm database. Afterwards, run rpm -V against the NEWER
> version of systemd and dnf packages. Only if rpm -V gives a clean bill
> of health would it be safe to forcefully remove the older versions from
> systemd and dnf.
>

This is the list of duplicated packages (output of 'dnf repoquery 
--duplicated'):

http://paste.fedoraproject.org/284073/95094514/

-- 
Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux