todays update wipes all kernels and rpm is broken

[yonas Abraham]

On 7/24/07, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 20:18 -0400, yonas Abraham wrote:
> > in my rawhide machine, I use pirut to apply the appdates. it failed at
> > almost the end. after reboot,  I am left with only one kernel vesrion.
> > I had it set up in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf to keep 3
> > kernels. now that file is actually removed and saved as
> > /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf.rpmsave
> >
> > running rpm gives :error loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1
> >
> > /usr/bin/pirut : error in loading libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>
> 1. the installonlyn plugin is no longer  in the yum package in rawhide.
> That feature has been moved into yum itself so the plugin isn't needed.
> Yum should be preserving 2 kernels by default in the configuration in
> fedora. You can set the number you want it to keep by setting
> installonly_limit in yum.conf
>

it is good to know.

> 2. not sure about the deps but something as deep as libgcc_s.so.1 seems
> bad.
>  When you say pirut 'failed' what did it print out?
>

i don't remember what was it but it was a very long trace_back. The
machine is still here, planning to re install  it with fresh. But if
you want me to try before that, i am willing to try


/yonas