Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-26 Thread Jim Meyering
James Antill wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 15:52 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> > I've just realized that I had a list of all packages/versions >> > that were installed as of a few weeks ago (April 5). >> > In case it helps: >> > >> >> Yah - the histo

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Andre Robatino
Jim Meyering meyering.net> writes: > IMHO, one should always be able to run "yum -y update" without fear > of such damage. Maybe that's naive, but with the exception of > yesterday's run, it's worked for me for more than two years of > rawhide and F10..F13. In x86_64 F13 and Rawhide, often depe

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread James Antill
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 15:52 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > > > I've just realized that I had a list of all packages/versions > > that were installed as of a few weeks ago (April 5). > > In case it helps: > > > > Yah - the history sqlite file you uploaded

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > I've just realized that I had a list of all packages/versions > that were installed as of a few weeks ago (April 5). > In case it helps: > Yah - the history sqlite file you uploaded has all that info in there (in a round about way) but the problem sti

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Seth Vidal wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Seth Vidal wrote: >>> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: Frank Murphy wrote: > On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: >> There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite >> BZ-attached here: >> >> http://bug

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> Frank Murphy wrote: On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: > There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite > BZ-attached here: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 >

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Seth Vidal wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Frank Murphy wrote: >>> On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite BZ-attached here: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 >>> >>> Read up on: >>> yum-plugin-protect-packages >>

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Seth Vidal
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: >>> There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite >>> BZ-attached here: >>> >>> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 >> >> Read up on: >> yum-plugin-protect-packages >> >> if your going on autop

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Jim Meyering
Frank Murphy wrote: > On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: >> There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite >> BZ-attached here: >> >> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 > > Read up on: > yum-plugin-protect-packages > > if your going on autopilot. Thanks. Installed. IMHO, one should always be ab

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On 22/04/10 22:01, Jim Meyering wrote: > > There was only one: history-2010-03-08.sqlite > BZ-attached here: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/584997 Read up on: yum-plugin-protect-packages if your going on autopilot. -- Regards, Frank Murphy UTF_8 Encoded, Fedora.x86 64-32 Hybrid -- devel mai

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: >  Run "echo 'n' | yum --skip-broken update" > > for me and save the output. It's really unexciting output. Output below: Loaded plugins: downloadonly, presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running tran

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 21:09 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > I started the "yum -y update" Well there's your problem. Only half kidding, but yum -y is quite dangerous, as it will happily do things like "yum -y remove glibc". That said, it shouldn't have removed things in order to process the update,

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> I hope it's just me... >> but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled >> in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. > > I have two 64bit F13 laptops... fully updated with upd

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I hope it's just me... > but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled > in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. I have two 64bit F13 laptops... fully updated with updates-testing except for gnome-icon-theme-extras whic

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Seth Vidal wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > >> I hope it's just me... >> but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled >> in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. It removed almost everything >> from /boot, and removed or emptied /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin and

Re: F13/i686: yum update emptied /boot, /bin, /lib, etc.

2010-04-22 Thread Seth Vidal
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Jim Meyering wrote: > I hope it's just me... > but I was very dismayed to find that today's F13 update (which pulled > in a lot of changes) hosed my laptop. It removed almost everything > from /boot, and removed or emptied /sbin, /bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/bin. > It removed n