RPM problem -- made even worse

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:34 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:23 -0800, Alan wrote:
> > 
> >> More info...
> >>
> >> I found the yum.log.  (Named /var/log/yum.log.)  It listed that "pam" was
> >> one of the packages erased.
> >>
> >> I ran "rpm -V pam" to see what was missing.  Just every file used by pam. 
> >> The database lists pam installed for i386 and x86_64.  I guess I get to
> >> grab those packages and force a reinstall.
> >>
> >> At least I know what is screwed up again.
> >>
> >> I think that program needs some work...
> > 
> > Aborting transactions and starting them over is a dodgy affair.
> > yum-complete-transaction can _sometimes_ help,
> 
> I've not used it, so for all I know it might already do this...
> It would be handy if it could list the commands it thinks are needed to 
> fix the problem. A competent sysadmin probably wouldn't erase pam or the 
> last kernel or any of the other daft things a WIP fixer-upper might do.
> 

It's not an issue of erasing pam it is an issue of the way multilib
files are installed/uninstalled. You'll note he had pam installed, but
the files were all mangled.

-sv