YUM problem on new FC4 installation

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:10:40PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Donald Arseneau wrote:
> 
> >>Either program will run for a while then hang. for, like, 2 hours until
> >>I kill it. When hung it consumes 80-90% of the CPU but does nothing
> >>obviously productive.
> > 
> > That *is* unusual.  If I have a too-big update Yum thrashes,
> > taking 80-90% of the memory but less than 5% of the cpu; and
> > does nothing obviously productive.  Yum is a pig.
> 
> 
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
> 
> and try again.  Yum does have some porcine characteristics on a big
> install but it's generally very good.  If the above solved the problem
> then it was more an rpmn library problem than a yum problem FWIW.
> 
> -Andy
After removing the databases by the command I would run:
rpm --rebuilddb
to rebuild the database.

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