Whoops! Caught a bad update

[Haworth, Michael A.]

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 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:03 PM
To: Haworth, Michael A.
Cc: kclug at 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 at 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
>
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