fc4 yum update problems on two installations

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:07:31PM +0000, sport wrote:
> I have three machines all 32 bit running fc4.  These machines have been
> up and running without problems for five months or so.  I ran yum update
> on a one machine last sunday dec. 18th, and yum eventually failed with a
> segmentation fault.  I rebooted the machine, and kde won't come up.
> With the root login I was able to run gnome, and successive yum clean
> all, yum updates failed.  On a second machine I tried yum update on
> monday the 19th, and yum failed in a similar fashion, and repeated
> attempts caused rpmdb 4096 Input/output errors.  On a third machine I
> ran yum update on the 14th with success, and am afraid to attempt it
> again.  It appears as though yum was updated in each of these.  
> 
> The yum.log is blank on machine #2.  I have run yum remove kernel
> 2.6.4-1.1653_fc4 on this machine, and yum makes it through, but
> complains about rpmdb errors.  Running yum update
> kernel-2.6.4-1.1653_fc4 completes, and says that the kernel was
> installed, but also complains of the rpmdb errors.  It does add the
> kernel, but the machine fails to boot on that kernel.
> 
> Does anyone know of changes made last week to some packages, possibly
> yum or rpm that could be causing this?  The problem occurring on two
> separate systems and only when yum update was run in the last few days
> makes me think there is some new issue with the update mechanism.
> 
> I would appreciate any comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris 

-- 

n one of the machines I would run this experiment, Erase :
/var/lib/rpm/__db.*
Then I would run rpm --rebuilddb
and see if things get better.
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