Yum gives error: "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them"

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Issue

  • While updating the system using yum it throws an error: "There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them".
  • yum update interrupted and yum-complete-transaction wants to remove 253 pkgs
  • Running yum-complete-transaction renders the system inoperable after removing system critical packages

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • yum-utils-1.1.16-13.el5

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