yum, rpm, pirut, pup won't run on FC6

[Tony Nelson]

At 10:41 PM -0400 6/18/07, Eric wrote:
>At 09:55 PM 6/18/2007, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
><TN>>>>>In many cases a reboot, or just making sure that nothing is using
>RPM and`rm /var/lib/rpm/__db00?` will fix strange RPM issues.<<<<<
>
>Hmmm ... there are four /var/lib/rpm/__db00x files (000 through 003).
>
>I said "ps aux | grep rpm" and got back nothing, so can I assume nothing is
>using rpm?

Yum and yum-updatesd and I expect pirut also use RPM.

>Should I just blow away those four __db00x files?

Maybe do `lsof | grep __db` first?

Note that the files are supposed to exist.


><TN>>>>>Sometimes it helps to rebuild the RPM database, with `rpm
>--rebuilddb`.This functionality may be going away; if that happens, you
>will need to re-install the OS instead.<<<<<
>
>Oh, for Pete's sake ... What goes around, comes around, right?  I've had to
>put up with "re-install Windows" as a cure for what ails ye for years, now
>you're telling me that Linux is tumbling down that same path?  :-(

Anything can break.  For a while a kernel bug (along with some other
issues) made it happen to a fair number of people, but that's fixed now.  A
Linux system will still work with a damaged RPM database, but package
updates won't work.  The RPM database is important enough that a single
failure per year in a thousand users is noticed.  When RPM seems to stop
working, the locks are the most likely issue, but if not, it's possible
that the RPM database is damaged.
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