[K12OSN] How to discover latest packages installed by Yum

[Robert Arkiletian]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:42:45 -0700, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at fpcc.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:07:34PM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:04:16 -0700, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at fpcc.net> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 11:53:14AM -0800, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> > > > I did yum update last week. Some of my clients are now sometimes
> > > > getting disconnected from X. Here is what /var/log/messages says
> > > >
> > > > Mar  9 13:38:56 server gdm[23409]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X
> > > > error - Restarting ws133.ltsp:0
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to find out the lastest packages installed by yum?
> > > > I could try reverting to the original packages and see if that fixes
> > > > things.
> > >
> > > cat /var/log/yum.log
> > >
> >
> > Unfortunately, this file on my server is empty. Nothing in it. Maybe
> > because I  rebooted the server since my last yum update. Is there any
> > other way?
> 
> Nope, the yum log file isn't wiped during reboot.
> 
> Previous versions rotated the log every week. Current versions rotate it
> once it reaches a specified size.
> 
> Is there a /var/log/yum.log.1?  Are there _any_ yum logs in /var/log?

Thank you. I got this from /var/log/yum.log.1


03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gnome-vfs.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gdk-pixbuf.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: cdda2wav.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gdk-pixbuf-gnome.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: vim-enhanced.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: vim-minimal.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: cdrecord.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: cyrus-sasl-devel.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gnome-vfs-devel.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: vim-common.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: sox.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: cyrus-sasl.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gnome-vfs2.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: cyrus-sasl-plain.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gnome-vfs2-devel.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: gdk-pixbuf-devel.i386
03/04/05 12:04:43 Dep Installed: mkisofs.i386

Could any of these packages screw up X?

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Robert Arkiletian
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