rpm __db issues, PK/yum transactions fail to complete

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:46 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote:
> In the last few days I've had a few issues with yum, and PackageKit transactions 
> failing to finish, and the processes needing to be killed.  When I notice this, 
> I usually cannot run any other transaction either because they will all hang.
> 
> It appears something is damaging my rpm __db.xxx files... nothing rpm tries to 
> do after that works.  Running 'rm /var/lib/__db*; rpm --rebuilddb' gets things 
> moving again, but it does not seem to last long before I get the same situation 
> occurring.  So far, it seems like both yum and packagekit end up doing this, as 
> I alternate between them while testing.  I haven't decided if yum was what 
> triggered the problem yet or if only PK is what causes it.
> 
> Has anyone else been running into this?  I've removed those files about 10 times 
> so far and it should not be something I have to keep doing.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441420
> 

Do you have yum-updatesd and packagekit installed/enabled at the same
time, by any chance?

-sv