Another approach to consider: the failed system is SL 7.2 and does boot
but does not bring up the GUI (e.g., ctrl-alt-F3 brings up a login
prompt on a scrolling terminal screen and all users, including root, may
log into the system). I have other working SL 7.2 systems (I have had
no time to
The response below does not seem to agree with what I observed.
The downloads strictly were from the specified repos for an update, all
from the web (no local NFS, etc., caching). If what is stated below is
correct, unless yum is not re-entrant, once the installation (update)
had started, all
