On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 16:50 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote: > So, how do I recover the use of my machine.
That, of course, depends on exactly what's wrong with it. I used fedup to upgrade five different machines (two laptops and three desktops). Only one of them was left in a totally hosed state, where I got weird DB errors if I tried to use yum or rpm, and some other commands failed due to missing shared libraries (or having the wrong version so that the required version was missing). I could log in as root on the text console, but couldn't do much after that and had no way to repair the package management system. I ended up repairing it by booting into rescue mode, and using "yum --installroot" to update the broken system. What is really stupid is that the yum command exists on the rescue DVD, but the Python modules needed to run it do not, so I also had to set the PYTHONPATH environment variable to point inside the mounted-but-broken system in order to get yum to work from the rescue disc. This will work if and only if your problem is the same as mine was. Since I have no way of knowing that (I don't even know exactly what went wrong on *my* system), I haven't replied to this thread previously. I suspect there may be others in the same position as me, which might explain why nobody has answered; nobody really has confidence that what worked for them would work for you. --Greg -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
