On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:34:43PM -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 01:10:40PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> > Donald Arseneau wrote:
> >
> > >>Either program will run for a while then hang. for, like, 2 hours until
> > >>I kill it. When hung it consumes 80-90% of the CPU but does nothing
> > >>obviously productive.
> > >
> > > That *is* unusual. If I have a too-big update Yum thrashes,
> > > taking 80-90% of the memory but less than 5% of the cpu; and
> > > does nothing obviously productive. Yum is a pig.
> >
> >
> > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
> >
> > and try again. Yum does have some porcine characteristics on a big
> > install but it's generally very good. If the above solved the problem
> > then it was more an rpmn library problem than a yum problem FWIW.
> >
> > -Andy
> After removing the databases by the command I would run:
> rpm --rebuilddb
> to rebuild the database.
I already tried that, though I didn't remove any files first.
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