yum again
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 5 01:02:57 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:23 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
> You know when yum works its great but every once in a while it just sets my
> teeth on edge by failing for no apparent reason and without any noticeable
> diagnostic. This happened recently. I tinkered with the HD and had to cycle
> power to do so. F7 came back up saying I have updates available. As usual I
> just entered the root password and hit enter. segfault. WTF? try again while
> crossing my fingers and wishing. segfault. Anyone else seeing this? two
> replies, no, must be you, works for me. grump. Dig into past fedora-list mail
> for ideas. What about yum clean all? Looks reasonable, ran it and it returned
> pretty quickly with no errors. Ok, will the update work? no. Now it hangs
> after downloading the packages and before installing. Reboot. no joy. well
> what else is in the archives. what about
>
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm --rebuilddb
>
> seems like a reasonable move but it has been running now for 90 minutes. Is
> that reasonable? anyone have ideas? diagnostics? or log files I can check?
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seems 90 minutes to rpm --rebuilddb is longer than it should take. You
could abort. Probably could 'rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*' and then 'rpm
--rebuilddb'
Then you might try 'yum clean all' to get back to square one
Craig
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