Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-20 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Deron Meranda wrote: > One more interesting thing... I just completed my reboot, and my > system now seems quite happy. > However when I selected the kernel to use in the grub menu, it quickly said > >   Loading Fedora (3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64) > > even though I had e

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
>> Thanks again everybody.  Oh, any idea about the grubby error? > > Did you update from F15? > > You probably have /etc/grub.cfg and /boot/grub left lying around. That > confuses grubby. You can remove /etc/grub.cfg to shut it up, then, in a few > /boot/grub. Yes, it was an upgrade from F15, whi

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Deron Meranda writes: Thanks again everybody. Oh, any idea about the grubby error? Did you update from F15? You probably have /etc/grub.cfg and /boot/grub left lying around. That confuses grubby. You can remove /etc/grub.cfg to shut it up, then, in a few months, once the confidence level

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
Kevin Fenzi said: > ok. Then I fear you will need to go to: > > package-cleanup --cleandupes Great news. I think I've finally got my system back to a clean and updated state! Thanks everybody who helped. I only have one curious error message about a missing grubby template (explained toward the

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:36:47 -0500 Deron Meranda wrote: > > I'll suggest again: > > > > yum history redo last > > > > (or you may need to find out which tansaction it was with 'yum > > history list' and then use that number instead of 'last') > > > Thanks. I read right over that the first time.

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:36:47 -0500 Deron Meranda wrote: > And then doing a "yum check" again confirms that it is still confused > and has multiple versions installed. The last time I got in this state, I finally resorted to doing low-level rpm commands to remove the old versions of the duplicates

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
> I'll suggest again: > > yum history redo last > > (or you may need to find out which tansaction it was with 'yum history > list' and then use that number instead of 'last') Thanks. I read right over that the first time. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have worked # yum history redo last

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:45:14 -0500 Deron Meranda wrote: ...snip... > How can I clean all this up? I tried just re-running the yum update > on the specific packages, but it complains, such as: > >Error: Protected multilib versions: at-3.1.13-5.fc16.x86_64 != > at-3.1.13-3.fc16.x86_64 > >

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
I have run an rpm verify against all of the packages that were part of the crashed yum update: at-3.1.13-5.fc16.x86_64 bind-libs-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16.x86_64 bind-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16.x86_64 bind-license-9.8.1-4.P1.fc16.noarch facter-1.6.2-1.fc16.noarch kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64 kernel-headers-3.1.1-2.fc16.

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
I ran the yum-complete-transaction but it seems to have refused to run (output below). # yum-complete-transaction ... There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one The remaining transaction had 10 elements left to run --> Running transaction check ---> Package at.

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 16:03 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:39:48 -0700 >> > T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> > >> >> I'm surprised YUM didn't tell you to run "yum

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 16:07 -0700, Craig White wrote: > >Google indicates that there used to be a "package-cleanup" > > argument to shut it up, but it doesn't seem to exist anymore. :-( > > $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/package-cleanup > yum-utils-1.1.28-1.fc14.noarch Correct. package-cleanu

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 16:03 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:39:48 -0700 > > T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > > > >> I'm surprised YUM didn't tell you to run "yum-complete-transaction". > >> I'd try running that first to s

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Kevin Fenzi
If you've not done any more yum commands that change things (installs/upgrades/removals), do: yum history redo last kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:39:48 -0700 > T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > >> I'm surprised YUM didn't tell you to run "yum-complete-transaction". >> I'd try running that first to see if that can clear up your errors. > > As near as I can tell, yum only

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:39:48 -0700 T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > I'm surprised YUM didn't tell you to run "yum-complete-transaction". > I'd try running that first to see if that can clear up your errors. As near as I can tell, yum only prints the message about running "yu-complete-transaction" when

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Deron Meranda wrote: > Some more information, > > I did a "rpm --verify kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64".  All of the files > seem to be okay and they all have the verify flags of "5S...", > nothing else. > > As far as grub, the 3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64 revision of the k

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Deron Meranda wrote: > What are my next steps?  If it was just a normal application package, > I'd force a yum re-install. But since this happened during a kernel > update, I don't want to risk messing my system up further. I'm surprised YUM didn't tell you to run

Re: System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
Some more information, I did a "rpm --verify kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64". All of the files seem to be okay and they all have the verify flags of "5S...", nothing else. As far as grub, the 3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64 revision of the kernel is listed in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. However I'm still running

System locked up during update of kernel, yum in unclean state and kernel half-installed

2011-11-19 Thread Deron Meranda
I'm running Fedora 16 and I attempted to install the most recent set of released updates (from fedora-updates - I'm not using the testing repo), using "yum update". While it was installing the kernel package (kernel-3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64), the entire system locked up. It was unresponsive to anything