I think I broke yum
Styma, Robert E (Robert)
stymar at alcatel-lucent.com
Mon Jan 15 22:35:14 UTC 2007
> Subject: Re: I think I broke yum
>
> On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:20 -0600, Michael Yep wrote:
> > After starting yum it was doing a 300+ pkg update, and it never
> > finished. Now I cannot run yum, and rpm seems to be broke too.
> > In addition I cannot issue a Ctrl-C command, I must hit
> Ctrl-Z and do a
> > kill -9 on the yum process. How do I find out what yum is
> doing and how
> > to get it back to normal?
> >
> > This is what yum says now:
> >
> > Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> >
> > [1]+ Stopped ./u
> > [root at localhost ]# ps aux |grep yum
>
> Try:
>
> su -
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* (that's two underscores)
> rpm --rebuilddb
>
On three different FC6 machines I had the same thing happen. I
used the commands:
su -
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages
rpm --rebuilddb
yum clean all
In all three cases updates went back to normal. Basically the same
thing Rick suggested with the db_verify and the yum clean added in.
They may not be necessary, but did work for me.
After that yum update worked.
Bob Styma
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