On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:56 -0800, Alan wrote: > I am encountering a problem that needs some sort of fix. Not urgent, but > it is something that eventually needs to be solved. > > I have a laptop that has heat issues. Given a hard enough workload it > will overheat and shutdown. (I have yet to find out where the temperature > setting is at for this shutdown. Hints would be much appreciated.) > > The big problem happens when I am updating RPMs and the system overheats. > I get a bunch of packages that have installed bits and no cleanup, which > means it thinks it has two version installed. Even more fun is that this > system is an x86_64. I get cases where I have the i386 version at one > revision and the x86_64 at another. And you cannot just update because > yum/rpm finds a conflict from the other package that is not getting > upgraded. > > I have had other systems crash in the middle of the upgrade. Fixing the > problem is always unpleasant. (Usually I have to figure out which packages > got bjorked and uninstall and reinstall with extreme --force.) > > Anyone looking at making yum and/or rpm deal with this sort of problem? Have you tried yum-complete-transaction? If not do this: yum install yum-utils yum-complete-transaction it should clean up your aborted transactions. -sv -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
