After a power cut my machine cannot boot

[Joe Zeff]

On 09/09/2015 10:36 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> on a F21 machine, there occured a power cut. And now I cannot boot the
> machine, and when I use the rescue mode and try to run again
>
> yum update

I know I'm coming in late, and judging from other replies this probably 
won't work, but have you tried yum-complete-transaction?  I'd suggest 
using --skip-broken, but that only checks for certain errors in the 
files rather than doing what the name implies.

Going off-topic for a moment, and presuming that dnf acts the same way 
(I don't, as yet, have a box using it.) should there be a bugzilla 
either complaining that the switch doesn't actually do what it says 
(e.g., skipping to the next package if this one is broken instead of 
only being able to pull it out of the transaction if the signature (I 
think it is.) doesn't match.) or requesting that it be renamed to 
something more appropriate, with the current switch being left as an 
alias for the correct one to keep scripts from breaking.  I'm neutral on 
the subject, although I'd prefer that something be done to keep people 
from wasting time trying in cases where it doesn't apply.