I have a corrupt FC6 rpmdb after a timed-out yum update; rpm --rebuilddb fails

[Jim Cornette]

Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> Hi Jim;
> 
>   The sequence:
>     1> delete the rpm db
>     2> rebuild rpm db
>     3> yum update
>   took almost ten hours, but it worked!
> 
>   The key was to use -y on yum so it wouldn't time out on me when I gave 
> up watching it take forever...
> 
> Thanks folks,
> Ken

Ten hours seems like a long time for the update to complete. As posted 
by you on your computer specs, it is great that it eventually finished 
successfully.

Yum must of bombed before it got to where it could of caused 
multi-versions of the same package within the rpm database.

You might want to install the yum-utils package and run
'package-cleanup --problems' to see if there are any problems with 
packages installed.

Jim


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