RPM problem -- made even worse

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:15 -0800, Alan wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:46 -0800, Alan wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Have you tried yum-complete-transaction?
> >> > If not do this:
> >> >
> >> > yum install yum-utils
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > yum-complete-transaction
> >> >
> >> > it should clean up your aborted transactions.
> >>
> >> Oh crap did that screw things up.  It deleted about a dozen packages.
> >> Now
> >> whenever i try and log in I get "unable to authenticate" for EVERY user
> >> (including root) on the box.
> >
> > boot it up in single user mode and see if you can get in and/or booting
> > with init=/bin/sh
> 
> I can get it to boot.  Now I need to figure out what it deleted.
> 
> I may have to work on it tonight since I only have wireless access at work.
> 
> > It should have removed those packages, if the transaction was where you
> > claim then those were just extras left hanging around.
> 
> Since this has happened more than once, it may have gotten something else.
> 
> install.log does not list what got deleted.  I will search for a yum log.
> 
> > Then again there are lots of cases where simply finishing out the
> > removal portion of the transaction isn't enough.
> 
> I guess so.

yum logs to /var/log/yum.log and /var/log/messages (normal syslog)

look there
-sv