>
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:46 -0800, Alan wrote:
>> >
>> > Have you tried yum-complete-transaction?
>> > If not do this:
>> >
>> > yum install yum-utils
>> >
>> >
>> > yum-complete-transaction
>> >
>> > it should clean up your aborted transactions.
>>
>> Oh crap did that screw things up. It deleted about a dozen packages.
>> Now
>> whenever i try and log in I get "unable to authenticate" for EVERY
user
>> (including root) on the box.
>
> boot it up in single user mode and see if you can get in and/or booting
> with init=/bin/sh
I can get it to boot. Now I need to figure out what it deleted.
I may have to work on it tonight since I only have wireless access at
work.
> It should have removed those packages, if the transaction was where you
> claim then those were just extras left hanging around.
Since this has happened more than once, it may have gotten something else.
install.log does not list what got deleted. I will search for a yum log.
> Then again there are lots of cases where simply finishing out the
> removal portion of the transaction isn't enough.
I guess so.
More info...
I found the yum.log. (Named /var/log/yum.log.) It listed that "pam" was
one of the packages erased.
I ran "rpm -V pam" to see what was missing. Just every file used by pam.
The database lists pam installed for i386 and x86_64. I guess I get to
grab those packages and force a reinstall.
At least I know what is screwed up again.
I think that program needs some work...