yum damaging rpm database on FC5

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 16:27 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:20 +0100, Wojtek.Pilorz wrote:
> > 
> >> Is that a known problem?
> 
> Oh yes.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=212507
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211917

Thanks for the pointers.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211917#c8
is the error message I was referring to in my other mail.

> > Don't know, but I had repeatedly been facing issues with similar
> > symptoms, on all 3 machines I have FC6 installed throughout last week.
> 
> Please add your info to the bug reports so this can be tracked down. 
> It's probably hitting a lot more people than have reported it.

Unfortunately, they closed PR 211917 as duplicate of
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181363

which hides away the symptoms very nicely :(

Ralf