yum damaging rpm database on FC5

[Jim Cornette]

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.
> 
> -- 
> John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com <mailto:jdennis at redhat.com>>
> Red Hat Inc.
> 

I had an instance where the package install, upgrade or remove would not 
take for vim-common. All of the other packages seemed to install, 
upgrade fine for the most part. I filed this bug but closed it since vim 
did not seem to be the problem. After doing an rpm --rebuilddb and 
trying to install, upgrade remove these packages, the effort was possible.

I did an rpm -qaV and no errors were reported except for the usual 
s-c-rootpassword missing files and the mono remnants which I had to 
erase manually for some odd reason.
Also, once there was a peculuarity with yum. Yum started to install 
packages, installed maybe five rpms and then for some reason jumped to 
maybe package twenty in the transaction and finished.

Here is the vim bug report link for an example. Forgive the giving up 
and using mc to install the package manually, though it was kind of 
enjoyable to learn what ../../ did, I was wondering how to change back 
two levels and now I know.

Bug report with rpm database corruption for one known item though rpm 
-qaV showed that everything was normal.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215658

Jim

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