yum update: Fatal error, run database recovery ??

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:35 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Or actually more to the point: sending SIGINT or SIGTERM is fine, rpm 
> blocks that when the db is open. But sending a SIGKILL (like PK does
> if  the backend doesn't terminate quickly) is just Russian roulette - 
> sometimes you get away with it, sometimes you dont.

Right. How about I just don't send SIGKILL at all for yum?

Richard.