Description of problem: Yesterday I've run 'yum upgrade' (with --skip-broken) for my Rawhide system. However during upgrade of 'systemd-libs' there was no progress being done for a longer time - so I've aborted upgrade (while ~8 other package were already upgraded in this upgrade transaction). Now I wanted to retry the upgrade (soon after I've aborted 'yum upgrade') - and I've been suggested by the repeated execution of 'yum upgrade' to use 'yum-complete-transaction'. So I've used 'y-c-t' and after quite lengthy 100% CPU usage (in range of minutes) I've been informed that systemd-libs package is part of some key component in the system and cannot be removed (not sure about the exact wording here) and transaction cannot be finished and process aborted. I've tried to remove duplicate installed package with: 'package-cleanup --cleandupes' - but this again wanted to remove like 1/2 my installed packages (pretty long list of package) - and it appears to by my already reported Bug 733810 which is then still valid for rawhide). So I'd to manually remove duplicate packages with 'rpm -e --nodeps' and 'yum upgrade' some packages explicitly to fix the problem. Then I've been able to fully upgrade my Rawhide via 'yum upgrade'. At this moment I've once again executed 'y-c-t' to really finished opened transactions - at this point it has passed - however using quite a lot of CPU power to do that - since verification of packages went with the speed like 2-3 packages per second to just display the package was already installed. As a bonus after all ~500 packages were completed this way - it has took another couple minutes just to spin 100% on CPU with final message that transaction has been finally completed. Used hw was - T61 - 2.2GHz C2D, 4G Ram, SSD While I'd been able to fix my problem - I doubt any non-skilled user would do - so IMHO 'y-c-t' is not really a tool for end-user. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-utils-1.1.31-14.fc20.noarch How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. abort yum upgrade transaction which uses --skip-broken (any rawhide upgrade) 2. try to finish abort transaction 3. (maybe just playing with systemd packages here would be enough) Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 759201 [details] yum log transaction 1
Created attachment 759202 [details] yum log transaction 2
Created attachment 759203 [details] yum log transaction 1
Created attachment 759205 [details] Yum log from last couple days
Created attachment 759206 [details] List of installed package (after yum upgrade)
Seemingly the same problem hit me this morning. Yum halted at the beginning of the installation phase of an update - but yum-complete-transaction was unable to cleanup the mess. It wanted to remove half my installation. I had to put the whole thing together with rpm -e --nodeps [duplicate package], rpm -i [new package] interspersed with yum check all's. Quite a mess which required a lot of hand work to cleanup.
frank: did you catch (or can you tell from 'yum history' or yum logs) what package caused the yum process to quit (presumably crash)? That's rather worrying.
Unfortunately no adam, I had a look at the yum log and it simply shows the last package being installed was ibus something or other...then my yum checks etc when I was cleaning up the mess. I don't think it was a crash....yum just returned to the prompt. Sorry but I was more concerned with cleaning up the mess rather than anything else. The problem is that I am having hardware problems with this machine (I suspect memory despite the fact that repeated memchecks have found nothing)...so I am always worried it;s going to lock up in the middle of an update (such as happened to me about 10 days ago)...that too created a mess I couldn't clean up. But this time it didn't lock up...yum just stopped...
well, I mean, if it just flat stops in the middle of a transaction, to me that indicates something somewhere failed catastrophically. it's clearly not the 'intended behaviour'. but if you're having hardware issues that may explain it...
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