F10 locked up while installing dl'd updates
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Apr 5 15:15:01 UTC 2009
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:10 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> First I must say that the F10 freezup, was not F10's fault, but a continuing
> problem I have with my Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, as it happens with other
> distros.
>
> Back to the plot.
>
> While the updates on F10 were installing, the machine decided to freeze. No
> keyboard, no mouse, no nothing, except a static image on KDE, like a
> screenshot. I had no alternative, but to press the reboot button.
>
> When I've had this happen on Debian installs, I run apt-get dist-upgrade, and
> apt-get complains, telling me to run, dpkg-reconfigure -a. This fixes the
> problem with packages that were partially installed when the machine froze
> up, then running apt-get dist-upgrade again, the remaining packages are
> installed.
>
> When F10 rebooted, I ran apt-get dist-upgrade (I use apt on Fedora), but
> apt-get complained about dependency problems due to duplicate packages on the
> system.
>
> Apt-get gave the following errors.
> E: Transaction set check failed
> E: Handler silently failed
>
> I tried various suggestions from apt-get, like, apt-get --fix-broken install,
> with no success.
>
> After a serious session of rpm -e on the various packages that had duplicates,
> some 3hrs later, I had reduced the list of problem packages to zero, and ran
> apt-get dist-upgrade again, which now continued with installing the remaining
> packages.
>
> The question is, is there some command I could have used on Fedora, similar to
> the Debian, dpkg-reconfigure -a, which is able to resolve problems with
> partially installed packages, when you get a power out, or in my case, the
> machine decides to freeze up, while installing the updates.
>
> I had a good look in the man page for rpm, but couldn't see anything there
> that might help, but there may be other commands not in the man page of
> course.
>
> As usual, thanks for any suggestions.
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yum install yum-tools
package-cleanup --help
Craig
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