recover from broken yum transaction

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 03:24 +0200, Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> Hi,
> I had my computer hang during a major yum upgrade.

When this happens you should run:
yum-complete-transaction

at the next possible time to see if it can finish the aborted
transaction.

>  Now, package-cleanup mentions like 50 duplicate packages installed. I
> had it clean them up. But now my system does not feel "clean". I am
> afraid if I reboot it won't come up. Is there a smart way to verify
> all system files are intact. rpm -Va outputs lots of crappy changes
> that are "normal". Any way to only get a warning, when something
> really important has changed ?

Really important is a bit subjective.

I'd recommend package-cleanup --cleandupes

then run:
rpm -Va and look for problems in files in /usr/lib /lib/ /boot, and all
of the bin dirs.

If you don't see any problems in those places then odds are you'll be
okay with a reboot.

-sv