On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > I hope it's just me... > but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled > in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. It removed almost everything > from /boot, and removed or emptied /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/bin. > It removed nearly everything from /lib and /usr/lib. > I suspect that it removed everything yum-owned, since the few remaining > files (at least the shift-jis ones) are ones I put there manually: > > What happened? > I started the "yum -y update", and didn't hang around to watch everything. > When I came back, the text displayed in all terminals was in a completely > illegible all-rectangles font, but emacs was ok (I'd installed it myself). > However, I couldn't start a shell from emacs (no surprise, now that I > know /bin was removed). Maybe yum actually told me it was going to > remove everything and if I'd been watching I could have stopped it. > I don't know. pleae look in /var/lib/yum/history/ and attach any/all files you find there to a bug report. but just going by the log you attached it looks like an update followed by cleanup erasures - but the history log will tell us a lot more. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
