yum damaging rpm database on FC5

[John Dennis]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:40 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 10:21 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:50 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:20 +0100, Wojtek.Pilorz wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is that a known problem?
> > > 
> > > Don't know, but I had repeatedly been facing issues with similar
> > > symptoms, on all 3 machines I have FC6 installed throughout last week.
> > 
> > I don't get the lock problem, but with FC6 I find I frequently have to
> > rebuild my rpm databases due to what appears to be rpm database
> > corruption problems. Sorry, I don't have more specific information.
> 
> I my cases, sometimes rebuilding helped, but sometimes even this failed.
> In those cases, I saw a very low level error messages, referring to some
> "db corruption". Unfortunately I did write them down :(
> 
> However, sofar rebooting has always "magically" resolved this issue.
> Makes me think about something very low level might have been broken
> (filesystem, some low level locks, kernel, memory leaks?).

Yeah, now that I think about it, at times I've had to reboot as well.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
Red Hat Inc.
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