rpmdb and /var filesystem corruption in F7+

[Orion Poplawski]

I have a lot of problems with rpmdb corruption occurring during
(network) installs since around February 2007, and with yum updates 
afterwards.  I've reported the problem here 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230362>.

The problem seems to have gotten worse with the latest rawhide releases
- I think about one of every five attempts to perform an install 
succeeds.  I'm still somewhat baffled that I appear to be the only 
person to be reporting these problems considering how reproducible they 
are for me with all kinds of hardware.

I keep a separate /var partition, and recently one of our F7 systems' 
/var filesystem got corrupted 
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=305301>.  Perhaps the 
problems are related.

Anyways, I'm concerned because this is causing me a lot of grief.  I'm 
just amazed that this doesn't seem to be happening to anyone else.  Is 
that true?

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