Whoops! Caught a bad update
Looks like I caught a bad update from Fedora on Monday - I got the update alert with x number of bugfixes, updates, etc. and reviewed it like I would any windows update - had some dbus bugfixes, some ALSA, and a few others... Went ahead and applied them and then decided that I wanted to tinker with a few other things and add some packages. I open Add/Remove Software to search for what I am after and as soon as I click on a category I get greeted with "The group could not be queried Running the transaction failed" and under more details it cites that it failed to get a TID because of a security policy"... I immediately went to Google to see if there was an answer to be found that would make me look like a n00b, but there isn't - there is only some acknowledgements that the error has been noticed - no solution. All of my Software Sources are missing, so even if a patch is to be released, I won't be able to see it at this point. I know that wiping and re-installing is the Windows way of fixing this, but I was wondering - is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality, but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional? I'm not really worried at this point - just that I haven't had to re-format for almost a week now (last one was due to some bad ATI drivers...), and was hoping to keep it going a few more days before I do something else foolish to my new OS. Michael Haworth PAS Technologies Inc. Direct Line: (816) 556-5157 Mobile Phone: (816) 585-1033
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Haworth, Michael A. wrote:
- is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality, but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional?
I fondly remember VMS and its versioning file system. Every change was a revision and old versions were kept as default. If I made lots of changes and the day turned out real bad, I could just go back in time. That one feature of VMS more than made up for its interesting command line format. I hear a versioning file system is in the works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system -=Duane http://www.dattaway.net
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Haworth, Michael A. wrote:
- is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality, but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional?
I fondly remember VMS and its versioning file system. Every change was a revision and old versions were kept as default. If I made lots of changes and the day turned out real bad, I could just go back in time. That one feature of VMS more than made up for its interesting command line format.
I hear a versioning file system is in the works:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system
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Try sudo yum update --skip-broken gnome-packagekit has been broken for about 8 hours. pastebin what you get for: ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d grep -i enabled -C 5 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo yum update --skip-broken -y You are on 10, right? With what did you tinker? On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 09:57, Haworth, Michael A. <Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com> wrote:
Looks like I caught a bad update from Fedora on Monday – I got the update alert with x number of bugfixes, updates, etc. and reviewed it like I would any windows update – had some dbus bugfixes, some ALSA, and a few others… Went ahead and applied them and then decided that I wanted to tinker with a few other things and add some packages.
I open Add/Remove Software to search for what I am after and as soon as I click on a category I get greeted with "The group could not be queried Running the transaction failed" and under more details it cites that it failed to get a TID because of a security policy"…
I immediately went to Google to see if there was an answer to be found that would make me look like a n00b, but there isn't - there is only some acknowledgements that the error has been noticed – no solution. All of my Software Sources are missing, so even if a patch is to be released, I won't be able to see it at this point. I know that wiping and re-installing is the Windows way of fixing this, but I was wondering – is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality, but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional?
I'm not really worried at this point – just that I haven't had to re-format for almost a week now (last one was due to some bad ATI drivers…), and was hoping to keep it going a few more days before I do something else foolish to my new OS.
Michael Haworth
PAS Technologies Inc.
Direct Line: (816) 556-5157
Mobile Phone: (816) 585-1033
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I am running 10 - fresh install from DVD, not the upgrade from 9. I just applied the Sunday updates from the stock Fedora repositories - no tinkering on that part. Through Google I have only seen a few hits for the issue I am seeing, most of which were exact matches to my circumstances but no answers as of yet. I will give the Terminal a try - I did notice that it will allow me to force even when there is no software source to pull from, All I have to do is know where to go and what to get (which is probably my shortfall right now). MH -----Original Message----- From: Billy Crook [mailto:billycrook@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:03 PM To: Haworth, Michael A. Cc: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Re: Whoops! Caught a bad update Try sudo yum update --skip-broken gnome-packagekit has been broken for about 8 hours. pastebin what you get for: ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d grep -i enabled -C 5 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo yum update --skip-broken -y You are on 10, right? With what did you tinker? On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 09:57, Haworth, Michael A. <Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com> wrote:
Looks like I caught a bad update from Fedora on Monday - I got the update alert with x number of bugfixes, updates, etc. and reviewed it like I would any windows update - had some dbus bugfixes, some ALSA, and a few others... Went ahead and applied them and then decided that I wanted to tinker with a few other things and add some packages.
I open Add/Remove Software to search for what I am after and as soon as I click on a category I get greeted with "The group could not be queried Running the transaction failed" and under more details it cites that it failed to get a TID because of a security policy"...
I immediately went to Google to see if there was an answer to be found that would make me look like a n00b, but there isn't - there is only some acknowledgements that the error has been noticed - no solution. All of my Software Sources are missing, so even if a patch is to be released, I won't be able to see it at this point. I know that wiping and re-installing is the Windows way of fixing this, but I was wondering - is there a way to just 'undo' the updates that I applied the other day? I know that Linux doesn't have the 'Restore Point' functionality, but shouldn't there be a way to remove/regress packages (with no Software Source) to get back to a version that is preferred/functional?
I'm not really worried at this point - just that I haven't had to re-format for almost a week now (last one was due to some bad ATI drivers...), and was hoping to keep it going a few more days before I do something else foolish to my new OS.
Michael Haworth
PAS Technologies Inc.
Direct Line: (816) 556-5157
Mobile Phone: (816) 585-1033
_______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
Download the gnome-packagekit from Updates-Testing and apply it along with the other Packagekit updates and all will be well. The problem was that they cleared the other updates to Packagekit and didn't include gnome-packagekit. Jeffrey. On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook@gmail.com> wrote:
Try sudo yum update --skip-broken gnome-packagekit has been broken for about 8 hours.
pastebin what you get for: ls -l /etc/yum.repos.d grep -i enabled -C 5 /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo yum update --skip-broken -y
You are on 10, right? With what did you tinker?
-- "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine
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