up2date recovery in fedora (fwd)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 22, 2004, Shoshana Rosenthal <shoshana at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:

> I was trying to up2date my PC fedora version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1.
> The installation didn't complete. There was no error message 
> it just hung. When rebooting the system the X-server doesn't work
> properly and maybe other things also. I checked the files on 
> /var/spool/up2date and many rpm files
> are still there. Is there any way of recovering at this point?

rpm -U --replacepkgs /var/spool/up2date/*.rpm has worked for me when I
accidentally rebooted a box while up2date was already installing
packages.

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