Yum problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On 03/12/2007, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2007 9:31 AM, John Pierce <john.j35 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I installed the x86_64 on my athlon 64 X2 and everything worked fine
> > until I did the yum update.
> >
> > I had installed several packages without a problem, then I ran yum
> > update and now when I try to install
> > any package I get hundreds of these lines:

> > RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

> TypeError: Can not create db_info table: database is locked

Have you tried "yum clean metadata" yet?

Also, if you are somebody who reboots often, you might want to
disable/remove yum-cron in case it is installed.