On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 17:10 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > First I must say that the F10 freezup, was not F10's fault, but a continuing > problem I have with my Asus M2N-X Plus mobo, as it happens with other > distros. > > Back to the plot. > > While the updates on F10 were installing, the machine decided to freeze. No > keyboard, no mouse, no nothing, except a static image on KDE, like a > screenshot. I had no alternative, but to press the reboot button. > > When I've had this happen on Debian installs, I run apt-get dist-upgrade, and > apt-get complains, telling me to run, dpkg-reconfigure -a. This fixes the > problem with packages that were partially installed when the machine froze > up, then running apt-get dist-upgrade again, the remaining packages are > installed. > > When F10 rebooted, I ran apt-get dist-upgrade (I use apt on Fedora), but > apt-get complained about dependency problems due to duplicate packages on the > system. > > Apt-get gave the following errors. > E: Transaction set check failed > E: Handler silently failed > > I tried various suggestions from apt-get, like, apt-get --fix-broken install, > with no success. > > After a serious session of rpm -e on the various packages that had duplicates, > some 3hrs later, I had reduced the list of problem packages to zero, and ran > apt-get dist-upgrade again, which now continued with installing the remaining > packages. > > The question is, is there some command I could have used on Fedora, similar to > the Debian, dpkg-reconfigure -a, which is able to resolve problems with > partially installed packages, when you get a power out, or in my case, the > machine decides to freeze up, while installing the updates. > > I had a good look in the man page for rpm, but couldn't see anything there > that might help, but there may be other commands not in the man page of > course. > > As usual, thanks for any suggestions. ---- yum install yum-tools package-cleanup --help Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
