F9beta update takes forever

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:14 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:19:07 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > 
> >> yum has changed its behaviour:
> >>
> >> filelists.sqlite.bz2                                     |  12 MB     00:07
> >> file:///net/cdm/home/mirror/linux/fedora/x86_64/os/repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2: 
> >> [Errno -1] Meta                        data file does not match checksum
> >> Trying other mirror.
> > 
> > Pardon? This is something bad at your end, in your local repo if
> > you get metadata checksum errors with your own mirror.
> 
> You'd think so, but I'm not sure. According to rsync, I have a correct 
> and complete copy of my IAP's mirror. While it's possible that mirror is 
> crook, the folk who care for it do update it regularly with rsync. It 
> should be okay[1]
> 
> > 
> >>    File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 450, 
> >> in searchFiles
> >>      cur = cache.cursor()
> >> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'cursor'
> > 
> > Looks much like you've got corrupted sqlite metadata in your yum cache.
> 
> Quite possibly, but if so then yum should diagnose it. I'm not referring 
> to _this_ run where it crashed, but others where it (apparently) looped.

This particular bug was fixed by James Antill in yum upstream. It hasn't
made it to rawhide, yet.

-sv