Broke my system trying to upgrade to rawhide using yum

[Horst H. von Brand]

suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+rawhide at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today I finally gathered up the courage to "live on the edge" and
> upgrade to rawhide. So I disabled all the other repositories and
> enabled rawhide. (Fedora and rpmfusion, living rpmfusion enabled was
> probably a bad idea) Then I ran

;-)

Here I also got an unbootable system, it looks like by cron automatically
running prelink(8). The steps here were:

  - Got boot.iso from a rawhide mirror (not all carry them!),
    dated 2009-07-07 (latest I could find)
  - Rescue mode complained there aren't any Linux partitions. Panic time! 
    But they are there, lvscan shows everything inactive (?)...

  # lvm
    lvm> lvchange -a y /dev/VolGroup/LogVol00
         ....
  # mount <lots of /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol?? under /mnt/sysimage>
  # chroot /mnt/sysimage prelink -u -a

After the above, I could run yum:

  # chroot /mnt/sysimage yum -y update --skip-broken

Several complaints about not being able to run %pre/%post later, I
rebooted normally, everything works (slowly, but better than not at all ;-)

Ran as root:

  # package-cleanup --clean-dupes

And then did a:

  # yum -y reinstall <list of packages with dupes from above>

just to be on the safe side WRT packages that didn't uninstall/install
cleanly. I'm pretty sure the above didn't catch them all, but...
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