SUG: Automatic RPM database verification and repair

[Jim Cornette]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 10:23 PM -0500 11/30/06, Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Tony Nelson wrote:
>  ...
>>> It's probably not the fault of the specific packages.  I see there were
>>> quite a few of them to clean up.
>> If anything stood out with the hangs, it seemed to be with packages
>> which had elaborate %post scripts to perform and the problem seemed to
>> happen when the installer program started to install the next rpm in the
>> transaction. I'm  probably imagining this as a condition by observation
>> but it seems to be the case in at least two of the most recent
>> transaction failures for FC6.
> 
> Yes, that might well be a trigger for the issue being discussed elsewhere.

Today all the updates installed correctly. There was not any complicate 
%post scriptlet for the load today and no indication of database corruption.
So I don't sound like "Dear Diary, today rpm, .... I'll wait for those 
to figure out the proper correction.

Jim

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