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This morning I went to update gitlab-ce using yum on our CentOS6 server from 8.8.4 to 8.8.5.

Unfortunately about halfway through the first of the two gitlab-ce package install steps I accidentally mashed the pause-break key on my keyboard. The result being that yum stopped.

I tried several things - being a *nix amateur I started out with retrying the yum command, yum update gitlab-ce - which told me yum was locked. So I found the yum PID and tried the kill command which did not report anything, but then yum was still running when I queried ps.

I found fg to foreground the yum job again. But it stopped after completing the first of the two upgrade steps.

Thought I had resolved things then, using yum-complete-transaction --cleanup-only which said it cleaned up a transaction journal.

But now, trying yum update gitlab-ce says 8.8.4 will be updated and 8.8.5 will be an update but the subsequent transaction check finds 8.8.5 is already installed and then stops. I still haven't seen it do the second of the two update steps.

A package-cleanup --dupes lists 8.8.5 and 8.8.4. The gitlab control panel still shows 8.8.4 and that I need to update. But a gitlab-rake gitlab:env:info command shows that gitlab is at 8.8.5 >_<

I am now not sure how updated or not gitlab is. How can I find out the state of the install and complete it?

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Try purging the 8.8.5 from your rpmdb. Use rpm -q gitlab-ce to get the exact package name and insert it into the command below.

rpm -e --justdb ${exact_package}

Should look something like this

rpm -e --justdb gitlab-ce-8.8.5

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  • Thanks for the suggestion. Could you elaborate on what this will actually do? (I'm pretty much a noob at *nix!) – Toby Jun 20 '16 at 12:24
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    Yum uses the rpmdb as its source of information. You're basically removing the .5 entry and leaving the .4 entry. When you re-run the update yum will be oblivious that it tried the upgrade and will start over. – Zachary Brady Jun 20 '16 at 12:45
  • Thanks Zachary! Am I right in thinking that check-packages also uses rpmdb as its source? – Toby Jun 20 '16 at 12:50
  • This did the trick by the way! To check out the rpm command I first ran rpm -evv --test --justdb gitlab-ce-8.8.5 before then running the one in the answer. Running the yum update gitlab-ce command slowed on the completing transaction stage but then completed correctly and gitlab is displaying the correct versions all round :) – Toby Jun 20 '16 at 13:11
  • Glad it worked for you :) – Zachary Brady Jun 20 '16 at 13:16

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