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
