On 06/12/2010 09:37 AM, Mike Williams wrote: > Hi there. On a system that recently had a fresh install of f13 I got > the following message from yum: > "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider > running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them." > > When I ran yum-complete-transactions another message appeared: > "There are 1 outstanding transactions to complete. Finishing the most recent one > The remaining transaction had 228 elements left to run" > > Then after a very long list of packages it wants to remove including: > bash, yum-utils, and xorg-x11-drv-nouveau it says: > > Remove 159 Package(s) > > This sure seems like it will kill the system. > > I did that yesterday and killed my system. I was able to recover after some hacks with live cd, chroot and yum reinstall -- but definitely wouldn't recommend to anyone with a weak heart. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines