[WBEL-users] yum updates

[Jon Hill]

I took the easy way out and used another machine, but I will have a go at 
getting this backup and running. I'll let you know how I get on. Thanks for 
the advice.

Jon


On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:36, bishop wrote:
> 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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