Yum update...only one at a time?

[Mike Loiterman]

seth vidal <mailto:skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:21 -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote:
>> seth vidal <mailto:skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
>>>> My memory is ok...I recently upgraded it and ran memtest overnight.
>>>> 
>>>> It exits...returning me to the normal prompt.  No errors or
>>>> anything. 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Try rebuilding your rpmdb:
>>> 1. kill all jobs accessing the rpmdb in any way (rpm, up2date,
>>> rpmquery, yum) 
>>> 2. cd /var/lib/rpm ; rm -f __db*
>>> 3. rpm --rebuilddb
>>> 
>>> try the command again.
>>> 
>>> -sv
>> 
>> That didn't work.  I should note that this started after I upgrade
>> from 
>> 2.1.3.   Is there a way to downgrade?
>> 
> 
> you can but this still shouldn't be occurring on either version. I've
> heard of it happening to others but in ALL the other cases it's been
> flaky hardware or a damaged install/rpmdb.
> 
> try running rpm -Va --nofiles --nodeps and see if it reports any
> problems. 
> 
> -sv

Nothing was reported.

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