Latets yum thoroughly hosed?!

William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wacker at octothorp.org
Thu Feb 2 00:17:26 UTC 2006


On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 20:30 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
>> i686, Fedora rawhide up to date (except for neon, rpm*, subversion; blocked
>> by OOo).
>>
>> Just updated, now I have yum-2.5.1-3. Running yum just to make sure
>> everything is now up-to-date gets to more than a minute (!) of CPU time
>> while checking the local repo data, and OOMs the machine, filling up swap
>> and making it nearly unresponsive.  Only way out is kill -KILL, AFAICS.
>>
>> Just too bad I can't find an old yum RPM lying around just now...
>
> Known bug, and it's not caused by yum.
>
>
The problem seems to be with sqlite.  But if your update run was 
successful, you might have stuff dependent on it.  I guess, when they 
release a new one, we can manually update it.  Then we should be OK.

           HTH.

-- 
           Bill in Denver




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