rpm __db issues, PK/yum transactions fail to complete

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 22:46:01 UTC 2008


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

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