[GTALUG] war story: fixing a Fedora installation that got broken during update

[Dhaval Giani]

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> Since the system failed after a software update, I decided to do more of
> them.  You could instead back out of them.
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>   sudo dnf update
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> Failure:
> There was a set of kernel packages that seemed to be half installed.
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> I removed the half that was installed and asked again for an update.  It
> worked.
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This doesn't make sense. The kernel is the only package you can install
multiples of. It will never only have one kernel "rpm" installed. Even if
it failed to install part of it - you should have been able to boot to an
older kernel. Did you try that?

Thanks!
Dhaval
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