After a power cut my machine cannot boot

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> 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.

Thanks, Joe. I have just tried

yum-complete-transaction

but with no success: the error message ("/lib64/libidn.so.11: file too short").

Paul