maybe yum-updatesd? (was Re: yum updates corrupting rpmdb)
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 30 03:14:07 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 22:00 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
> Joe Smith wrote:
> > This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a
> > corrupted rpm database for me. ...
>
> Just an update, FWIW.
>
> I continued to have routine rpmdb corruption issues, sometimes with as
> simple a command as "yum remove foo-1.2.3-1.fc8". The rebuilddb
> procedure was always successful and allowed me to proceed with minimal
> package management, but after the next reboot (it's just a desktop:
> booted mornings; shut down at night), yum commands would encounter
> corruption again.
>
> This continued up until about a week ago, when I decided that I would
> try shutting off yum-updatesd altogether, and since then I've had zero
> problems with any yum commands, including two updates involving several
> packages.
>
> I realize this is purely circumstantial, and I have no explanation why
> no one else is reporting trouble, if there's a problem with yum-updatesd.
>
> Since it still wouldn't prove anything to re-enable yum-updatesd and see
> the problem return (or not), and I don't care to fiddle with rebuilddb
> without a chance to get some solid evidence in return, I'm just going to
> leave yum-updatesd off, for now.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions for further steps to
> understanding this, I'd be most interested to hear them.
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I have seen little to no complaints regarding this other than yours. I
suspect that it is not an endemic problem (ala RHL 8.0)
Last time I suggested that you peruse/search bugzilla for other reports
as probably the best way to see if there are reports similar to yours.
Craig
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