Partial FC6 upgrade?

[Jim Cornette]

Tony Nelson wrote:
 > I'm thinking the problem might be from the puplet interfering with
>> ongoing transactions which is killing the rpm databases. This is a
>> WAG so I really will have to disable the puplet applet and note if
>> database corruption is ongoing or not present any longer.
  ...

> I as well am slightly suspicious of puplet (and pirut), though they should
> be using RPM and not be able to introduce such issues.  I'll just keep my
> eyes on the database; I may add a nightly cron task to do this if I can be
> sure of handling locking issues.

I am now applying updates via the puplet applet and seeing if the 
corruption issue will cease. As past practices, I use yum from a root 
shell mostly. Everything seems to install fine when using the puplet to 
launch pup. I did have a problem with control-center not installing 
because of a scriptlet error. This is with current development which is 
pretty stable and with few conflicting packages at present.

Please inform of what the automatic updates do for you.



> This command verifies the various RPM database files:
> 
>     []# ( cd /var/lib/rpm ; for name in `find . ! -name '__db*' -type f -print` ; do echo "$name" ; /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_verify "$name" ; done )

I ran this and ended up with the below output with no out of the 
ordinaty output (Except the files listed below. Do I read these files 
after running the script or expect output if something is incorrect?

./Conflictname
./Basenames
./Triggername
./Packages
./Pubkeys
./Name
./Requirename
./Group
./Installtid
./Sigmd5
./Provideversion
./Providename
./Sha1header
./Dirnames
./Filemd5s
./Requireversion

Then I get back to the shell prompt. (as root)
Jim

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