maybe yum-updatesd? (was Re: yum updates corrupting rpmdb)

[Joe Smith]

Craig White wrote:
> ... 
> Last time I suggested that you peruse/search bugzilla for other reports
> as probably the best way to see if there are reports similar to yours.

Ack! You did, and I forgot to look.

So... lots of nasty "rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected..." 
reports, mostly fc6 or earlier.

There was one nasty kernel mmap bug, but that was against fc6 and fixed 
for kernels >= 2.6.9, although it seems at least one person is still 
experiencing it with f7/f8:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=181363

Anyway, it seems that the rpmdb exercises the system in some unusual 
ways, and it's not unheard of to see "mysterious" corruption that can 
depend on what hardware is present.

I'm just going to stick with manual update checks for now.

<Joe