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

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 05:27:12 UTC 2008


On Jan 3, 2008 9:15 PM, Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com> wrote:
> 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

There's a chance that your hardware (power supply, fan, RAM, hard
drive, etc.) is failing and you are observing the symptoms.




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