YUM check (Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade)

2016-09-08 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: >> Is there any counterpart of the old "yum check" where I can verify >> everything is now ok? >> > I don't know what "yum check" did. What are you trying to verify? From the man page for YUM. > check Checks the local rpmdb and produces information on any >problems

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 09/07/2016 02:03 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: Is there any counterpart of the old "yum check" where I can verify everything is now ok? I don't know what "yum check" did. What are you trying to verify? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb wrote: >> It seems to be trying to put everything back to F23. "rpm >> -qa|sort" shows that almost all of the fc23 packages are paired >> with fc24 packages, both of which are installed. Is there any >> reason I can't just remove the redundant packages? >> > You probably have both fedo

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 09/07/2016 01:56 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: That's an excellent idea because dnf doesn't use the contents of /etc/fedora-release, it uses the version of fedora-release.rpm. If you have a dupe, it stops when it finds the older one and uses that. I know, because I've been burned that way. Me too, f

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/07/2016 01:32 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: You probably have both fedora-release packages installed. Remove the 23 one. That's an excellent idea because dnf doesn't use the contents of /etc/fedora-release, it uses the version of fedora-release.rpm. If you have a dupe, it stops when it fin

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/07/2016 01:27 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: It seems to be trying to put everything back to F23. "rpm -qa|sort" shows that almost all of the fc23 packages are paired with fc24 packages, both of which are installed. Is there any reason I can't just remove the redundant packages? dnf remove \*fc23\

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread CLOSE Dave
Samuel Sieb answered my plea for help. Thanks! > First do "rpm --rebuilddb" to make sure the rpm database is consistent. > Run "systemd-cat --version" to make sure you're currently running 229. > If so, then do "rpm -e systemd-222-14". Then try the upgrade again. I was running 229 (fc24) as you

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 09/07/2016 01:27 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: Samuel Sieb answered my plea for help. Thanks! It seems to be trying to put everything back to F23. "rpm -qa|sort" shows that almost all of the fc23 packages are paired with fc24 packages, both of which are installed. Is there any reason I can't just remo

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-06 Thread Kevin Cummings
I had the same thing happen on an F22->F23 upgrade. Essentially you have to figure out which F24 packages got installed, and remove them by hand. 😖 Then you can resume the upgrade. Make sure the fedora-release-24 package is already installed before you continue! -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@

Re: Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 09/06/2016 04:32 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: # dnf --allowerasing -y system-upgrade download --releasever 24 Last metadata expiration check: 0:23:15 ago on Tue Sep 6 15:53:47 2016. Dependencies resolved. Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: systemd. Evide

Cleaning up after an aborted upgrade

2016-09-06 Thread CLOSE Dave
I have a machine where I tried to do a system-upgrade from F23 to F24. The download portion worked fine but after the reboot, the upgrade process aborted. I'd like to know why, but first I need to clean up the mess so I can try it again. Right now I have 4782 total packages installed including