yum-complete-transaction removed almost all RPM packages on my system with no warning prompts. The system happened to be a Xen hardware host, running multiple virtual hosts, so it hurt. This has got to be a bug, and it is one that has bitten many others:
- yum-complete-transaction in yum-utils
- yum-complete-transaction should be run??? Many apps to be erased....
- yum-complete-transaction erased my system.
- Will yum-complete-transaction wipe out my system?
- Yum-complete-transaction wants to wipe my system out
For the first time in a while, I long for apt, which never left me hanging.
4 comments:
Ouch! Thanks for the heads up. Will watch out for that one.
Oh man, that's painful. Thanks for sharing.
I have had that happen. If I run that now I make sure I have a root terminal open that has a nice long scroll history, and have downloaded at least the latest version of yum/rpm so that I can repair the damage if necessary. By scrolling backup and can see and re-install any packages that have been eroneously removed.
Fortunately it does not seem stop running processes, so at least things like Apache and MySQL keep going but you still need to type like mad to get everything going again properly.
This hosed one of web servers as well. Removed most/all the packages installed. Wish I read this earlier.
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