Yum update failed to finish

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This is an installation inside ESXi4.1 hypervisor.
The error came up after trying to apply the system updates through the web interface. The update process quit somewhere mid-way.
The phones are ringing, we are placing and receiving calls. However…
Now, when I go to system updates, there’s a message:
Last System Update: 1 sec. ago (YUM error).
If I click on “yum error” string, I see this pop-up:
“Yum update failed to finish. Please see ‘/dev/shm/yumwrapper/yum-update.log’
Undefined index: yum-update”

Not sure if the following will be relevant, but in the “System Overview” of the dashboard I see the message: “1 new module available -> The following new modules are available for download. Click delete icon on the right to remove this notice.
versionupgrade (14.0.2.3)”. If I click “resolve”, I get taken to the module update section where NO modules are shown needing any upgrades.

The /dev/shm/yumwrapper/yum-update.log shows a bunch of garbage text.

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log into the machine and see if yum is still running.

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No, does not look so.
ps -ef | grep yum
root 28703 15706 0 15:49 tty1 00:00:00 --color=auto yum

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try running “yum update” from the CLI and see if that errors out.

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Running it on the server gets me “no packages marked for update”. Not from Asterisk CLI, from inside the server instance itself.
And yes, the error stays.
I restarted apache as I thought there might have been a php update during the failed upgrade. Did not help.

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remove everything out of the /dev/shm/yumwrapper/ folder. Either move it out of there or just delete everything.

I tried updating a new install on a VM. If I update the system via the web interface the updates part borks until i remove all contents from that folder. If i update the system via yum in the CLI it works fine.

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Serenity now! Thank you Dan

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