maybe yum-updatesd? (was Re: yum updates corrupting rpmdb)
Joe Smith wrote:
This is the second update in as many days that has resulted in a
corrupted rpm database for me. ...
Just an update, FWIW.
I continued to have routine rpmdb corruption issues, sometimes with as
simple a command as "yum remove foo-1.2.3-1.fc8". The rebuilddb
procedure was always successful and allowed me to proceed with minimal
package management, but after the next reboot (it's just a desktop:
booted mornings; shut down at night), yum commands would encounter
corruption again.
This continued up until about a week ago, when I decided that I would
try shutting off yum-updatesd altogether, and since then I've had zero
problems with any yum commands, including two updates involving several
packages.
I realize this is purely circumstantial, and I have no explanation why
no one else is reporting trouble, if there's a problem with yum-updatesd.
Since it still wouldn't prove anything to re-enable yum-updatesd and see
the problem return (or not), and I don't care to fiddle with rebuilddb
without a chance to get some solid evidence in return, I'm just going to
leave yum-updatesd off, for now.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions for further steps to
understanding this, I'd be most interested to hear them.
<Joe