On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:07:31PM +0000, sport wrote: > 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 -- n one of the machines I would run this experiment, Erase : /var/lib/rpm/__db.* Then I would run rpm --rebuilddb and see if things get better. ======================================================================= What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
