Latets yum thoroughly hosed?!

[Evo Test - Jim C.]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 14:34 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:

> I just get:
> # yum check-update
> Setting up repositories
> extras-dev: ################################################## 2/2
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Killed
> 
> Even though I didn't kill the process. This is after about 3 minutes of
> CPU thrashing. I'm guessing there's an internal timer that is triggering a
> kill...

Originally,I thought it was pirut. It was not pirut which uses yum. it
was not yum, which uses sqlite. It was sqlite.

Bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179547

Thanks to those that figured which package was stealing all memory. At
least I experienced what an OOM error does to the system. In the bug
report is a link to the older version. The version is older, so the rpm
--oldpackage is needed.

Jim