maybe yum-updatesd? (was Re: yum updates corrupting rpmdb)

[Joe Smith]

Joe Smith wrote:
> ...
> 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.
> ...

And just now I had the database go belly up even with yum-updatesd 
completely disabled, so it looks like that's off the hook.

I wonder how the same hardware was stable all through f7, and f8 up 
until about a month ago. Maybe a kernel glitch with my hardware? The 
system is stable otherwise, but maybe the database exercises something 
unusual.

Still scratching my head...

<Joe