yum update: Fatal error, run database recovery ??

sean darcy seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 00:41:39 UTC 2009


Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On 04/18/2009 03:42 AM, Jerry Amundson wrote:
>>>> I'll file a bug, but how can I fix this in the meantime?
>>> Reboot? Odd, I know, but I've had to on occasions where updates put
>>> libraries in confused states.
>> It might also work because /etc/rc.sysinit has
>>
>> "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* &> /dev/null"
> 
> Heh, that's more likely. I still get get windows-on-the-brain sometimes...
> 
> jerry
> 
Rebooting worked. I'm using ext4. Some googling says that's the issue.

sean




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