Yum Update

[David Bear]

what if I can't find yum-complete-transaction ? I assume its a
script/executable that should exist somewhere in my file system.

does it also need to be installed?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Carel Lubbe <
carel.lubbe at openpolytechnic.ac.nz> wrote:

>
> I have had a similar problem and got around it by firstly running
> # yum clean all
>
> And then I did a
> # yum makecache
>
>
>
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 08:14:15 Phebe_Mertes at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
> >   From:       Troy Knabe <knabe at 4j.lane.edu>
> >
> >   To:         Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> >
> >   Date:       07/01/2009 01:45 PM
> >
> >   Subject:    Yum Update
> >
> >   Sent by:    redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I had to break a yum update and now I see this everytime I try to run
> > yum.  But if I run yum-complete-transaction it says there are 805
> > packages scheduled to be removed.  This does not seem like something I
> > want to do on my production server, so I am wondering if there is a
> > way to clean the yum database so I don't get the warning below without
> > completing the transaction??
> >
> > "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You mightconsider
> > running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them."
> > --
> > Troy Knabe
> > knabe at 4j.lane.edu
> >
> >
> > yum clean all
> >   Runs  yum clean packages  and yum clean headers, yum clean metadata and
> > yum clean dbcache as above.
> > OR
> > you can rebuild the rpm database
> >
> >
> > cd /var/lib
> > tar -czf rpm.broken.`date +%Y%m%d-%R`.tgz rpm/
> > cd rpm/
> > rm -f __db.00*
> > rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
> > Phebe Mertes
> > 210-301-6271
>
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David Bear
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