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Please think about this problem that I have had twice. Once I solved it by a complete reinstall of the system, the second time by some luck.<BR>
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YUM is as critical to updates as a /boot partition and a backout kernel version is to booting.<BR>
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When the system crashes, we have a recovery cd. But when YUM crashes, and it has, for whatever reason, we need a recovery version of yum to be installable. This recovery version would restore yum to an earlier version, and hopefully with that, we will be home free. <BR>
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versionlock failed on my system because there was no file called versionlock.list. Doing a touch using the error message, identifying the file solved the problem. Oftentimes however, the error message is nonsense.<BR>
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So please note that versionlock plugin fails if the listfile is missing.<BR>
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Leslie<BR>
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