yum Segmentation fault

[Yuandan Zhang]

On 23/01/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 08:11 +1100, Yuandan Zhang wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When i use yum for update or check-update, it frequently ended with
> > "Segmentation fault". Most time, this was corrected after reboot the
> > system.
> >
> > my kernel is  2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 and yum is  yum-2.6.1-0.fc5
> >
> > how to fix it?
> >
> > below is yum update messenge:
> >
> >
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> > Loading "downloadonly" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > dries
> > [1/4]
> > updates
> > [2/4]
> > core
> > [3/4]
> > extras
> > [4/4]
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > Excluding Packages in global exclude list
> > Finished
> > Segmentation fault
>
> Try the following and see if it fixes it.  As the root user:
>
>         # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* (that's two underscores)
>         # rpm --rebuilddb
>
> The "rpm --rebuilddb" will take a while to complete.  Then try your "yum
> update" and see if it's better.



thanks, it seems that you offered the  fix. so far, none such error occur.



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