On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 12:06, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all... Great work on 7.6! > > I updated a number of boxes - all good! This "one" server I lost connection > through the internet or something... Anyway 702 transactions left and its > not happy. When I run yum-complete-transaction I get "many" > > Removing man-db.x86_64 0:2.6.3-9.el7 - ud from the transaction > Removing man-db.x86_64 0:2.6.3-11.el7 - u from the transaction > Removing python-ethtool.x86_64 0:0.8-5.el7 - ud from the transaction > Removing python-ethtool.x86_64 0:0.8-7.el7 - u from the transaction > Removing iprutils.x86_64 0:2.4.15.1-1.el7 - ud from the transaction > Removing iprutils.x86_64 0:2.4.16.1-1.el7 - u from the transaction > Removing strace.x86_64 0:4.12-6.el7 - ud from the transaction > Removing strace.x86_64 0:4.12-9.el7 - u from the transaction > > and then nothing happens.... (This is just a short list) many are printed. > > Thoughts? What next? I had a spurious problem on updating large number of packages which would cause a similar problem. I needed to break the update on these systems into 2 transactions: 1. yum update --skip-broken --exclude="gdm*" --exclude="java-1.7.0" --exclude="NetworkManager*" --exclude="ModemManager*" 2. yum update Not every system did this and there didn't seem to be a rhyme or reason on why it happened for the ones I ran into it (plenty of memory, plenty of CPU, etc etc) > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos