Re: Thank you, unknown genius!

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* Anton Solovyev <anton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [20080410 16:50]:
[snip]
> (Just like all tools of similar nature) yum has a good potential of killing 
> your system when something unexpected happens. I have had yum kill a box at 
> least once after something like terminal session timeout or a ctrl-c. 
> Something to the effect of leaving two versions of each package with the 
> subsequent destruction of the system on the attempt to remove the 
> duplicates. I am sure it was my fault, of course.

screen is your friend. I've seen exactly the behaviour you describe,
and recovered from it, but it took time and required patience. It was
going from F7 to Rawhide in the run-up to F8 release.

Live and learn. :)

-- 
Anders Karlsson <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
All-Round Linux Tinkerer & RHCE


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