Centos 5.6

[premierhosting]

Did something dumb today. yum update.

Yeah. That was stressful. Had to console in, remove krb5 files and force a reinstall of the package, and reinstall coreutils. Of course I didn't know that when the problems started.

Any suggestions on how to determine if any *additional* packages are incompletely installed? Also, noticed that I have multiple versions of some packages (like coreutils and krb5-libs). Any quick ideas on how to find multiple versions?

[scott]

take a look through /var/log/yum.log, that should have a timestamped list of everything that was applied during the update

[premierhosting]

That list is definitely incomplete.

[mikeshinn]

yum will log anything it changes, but only what you change thru yum. If you changed anything through another tool you may not have a record. Did you upgrade your OS just using yum?

If you believe there is an error in what yum is logging I recommend you try to recreate the upgrade, save the contents of the upgrade messages and open a bug report with Redhat and/or Centos that yum isnt logging things correctly. That would be a pretty serious bug.

[premierhosting]

Good point. When the thing locked up and I got back into it, nothing would work so I reinstalled the RPMs from the yum cache using rpm. That explains it. Any other ideas on how to find dupes?

[scott]

yeah run: yum-complete-transaction

[premierhosting]

Thank you. installed yum-utils to get the command, then it finished out a "screen" and "tzdata" install.

[breun]

Did something dumb today. yum update.

Actually that's usually a pretty smart thing to do. Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience, but saying running yum update is a dumb thing to do is just generally bad advice.

[premierhosting]

Yeah, I was being sarcastic breun. Just figured I'd post it up in case anyone else had problems going to 5.6.

[breun]

I guess I knew you were, but not everyone might get that. People read things like that on the internet and decide that updating their servers is just a way to mess up something that's working fine. I thought I'd clear that up for those people.

P.S. All of our CentOS 5 servers updated to 5.6 without any problems whatsoever.

[scott]

Its tools like yum-complete-transaction that take the danger out of it. As far as I know, no other distro has anything like it