[WBEL-users] yum updates

[bishop]

Jon,

Do you think you want to try to repair your current install, or just 
start over?

You should be able to (find and) install the yum RPM with just an rpm-i 
invocation, and then you should be off and running once again.

Um, you DO have rpm installed still, right?  If not, and you have nfs, 
we can mount the root (careful now) over NFS to another machine and use 
rpm with the --root on that system to reinstall rpm over the one that's 
there.  Then we unmount it, quickly, do the rpm--rebuilddb and yum install.

Oh, do an rpm --rebuilddb too, just to ensure you've got something 
coherent as an RPMdb, just before adding in the yum RPM or, well, 
whenever you think a known-clean RPMdb may be useful.

  - bish

Jon Hill wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I am new this list.
> I have White Box running on a development server, I like the ideas behind this 
> distribution and hope to become an active contributor if I can over time.
> 
> I had WB running on an oldish machine with a 2Gig hard drive. I didn't have a 
> great deal of space left I ran out of hard drive space whilst running a yum 
> update. I know have a damaged installation and don't know how I would go 
> about trying to recover packages. I can't even run yum anymore because it has 
> removed itself during the failed update. It was obvioulsy a little silly of 
> me to run an auto update on a machine like this one, but is this a flaw in 
> the whole yum concept? I had a similar problem running up2date on a RHE3 
> server recently. The update process failed and I ended up with RPMs that I 
> had to reinstall manually and then repair the package database etc.
> 
> Jon
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