On 10/27/2015 09:28 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Germán A. Racca writes:
Hi guys, I have this situation: I was updating my Fedora 22 at the
university, but there was a power outage and the update didn't finish.
Hopefully, I was able to boot the machine and even to login into
Gnome, but now it is impossible to continue with the update using dnf
upgrade.
I tried package-cleanup --cleandupes, but it didn't work because it
wanted to remove systemd and dnf, which are protected packages and are
duplicated.
Running dnf remove $(dnf repoquery --duplicated --latest-limit -1 -q)
also gives the same result: "Error: The operation would result in
removing the following protected packages: systemd, dnf".
My question is: can I safely remove the lower versions of systemd and
dnf with rpm -e and then proceed with cleaning duplicates and continue
to update in the usual way, or how should I proceed?
Before you can even think of repairing the software package set, you
need to verify the integrity of your filesystem and the RPM database.
touch /forcefsck
then reboot. The reboot will fsck all your partitions. Trying to fix
your software packages is a wasted effort, if you discover later that
your filesystem is corrupt.
After the reboot, run
rpm --rebuilddb
to rebuild the rpm database. Afterwards, run rpm -V against the NEWER
version of systemd and dnf packages. Only if rpm -V gives a clean bill
of health would it be safe to forcefully remove the older versions from
systemd and dnf.
Hi Sam, thanks for your message. After fsck and reboot, I did:
# rpm --rebuilddb
which finished without errors. Then I verified the versions of dnf:
# rpm -q dnf
dnf-1.1.1-2.fc22.noarch
dnf-1.1.3-1.fc22.noarch
and verified the newer version of the package:
# rpm -V dnf-1.1.3-1.fc22.noarch
so I removed the older version:
# rpm -e --nodeps dnf-1.1.1-2.fc22.noarch
The problem is with systemd, which is NOT duplicated:
# rpm -q systemd
systemd-219-24.fc22.x86_64
# rpm -V systemd
S.5....T. c /etc/sysctl.conf
.M....... /var/log/journal
Then again:
# rpm --rebuilddb
and I tried to remove duplicated packages:
# dnf remove $(dnf repoquery --duplicated --latest-limit -1 -q)
Dependencies resolved.
Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected
packages: systemd, dnf.
but it insists in removing systemd and dnf again.
How can I proceed next?
Many thanks,
German.
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Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
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