CentOS - Dec 2018 - Issue updating to 7.6

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?

Jerry

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 12:06:06 -0500
Jerry Geis wrote:
> This "one" server I lost connection
> through the internet or something... 
Not of any direct help to you now, but I learned the hard way that it's
always wise to run yum in a screen session when updating anything other than
your local computer.  That way if your connection to the box drops everything
will just keep on truckin' anyway and you can reconnect any time and
it's just like nothing bad happened at all.

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On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 12:06, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
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
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