SUG: RPM database verification / repair, nightly and in Anaconda

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 20/11/06, Otto Rey <otto_rey at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
> This sound good, but first we need to detect why rpms database got
> corrupted.
>

It seems that the rpm guys think this issue is arising due to races
and signal handling problems which are related to the repeated opening
and closing of the database inherent to the latest versions of yum:

See:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-November/001862.html

which is part of this thread on the problem:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-November/001849.html


Jonathan.