rpmdb and /var filesystem corruption in F7+
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Thu Sep 27 15:05:19 UTC 2007
Orion Poplawski wrote:
> 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?
>
I added a note to the bug; can you provide me with an image of the
corrupted filesystem, please?
Thanks,
-Eric
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