Update Conflicts

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Wed Feb 14 22:10:04 UTC 2007


Wade Hampton wrote:
> On my FC6 x86_64 laptop, yum crashed twice and I had to remove the
> __db* files and rebuild the RPM DB to get it to work.   This is a 4-5
> year old problem with RPM (first seen with RH7 or RH8 and the newer
> Berkley DB).

How long ago was that, and which kernel? It seems to have been due to an
unfortunate interaction between the Berkeley DB and a kernel bug, which
was fixed in 2.6.19.

James.

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