On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:50:25AM -0800, iank@xxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for the cross post to those who also are on the CentOS list. > > I just ran into a problem. I was following the nifty procedure to > upgrade a WhiteHat/RHEL3.x box to CentOS 3.6 and the update hung. It > was in the process of updating > MySQL server, and a post install scriptlet apparently failed. So I > killed the process > with a CTRL-C. However, upon trying to restart YUM, it says there is > nothing left to, > saying: > > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) > Server: CentOS-3 - Addons > Server: CentOS-3 - Base > Server: CentOS-3 - Extras > Server: CentOS-3 - Updates > Finding updated packages > Downloading needed headers > No Packages Available for Update > No actions to take > > However, the MySQL server package was 121/172, so there should be 51 > packages > left. Unless the output to the screen was killed off, but the process > continued? > > I have yet to reboot for fear something is in a very unstable state. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Ian I'd recommend looking at the output of rpm -qa and comparing it to yum list installed and see if they match. You may want to do a rpm --rebuilddb in case something wen reall weird. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.
