On 03/12/2007, John Pierce <john.j35@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 9:31 AM, John Pierce <john.j35@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I installed the x86_64 on my athlon 64 X2 and everything worked fine > > until I did the yum update. > > > > I had installed several packages without a problem, then I ran yum > > update and now when I try to install > > any package I get hundreds of these lines: > > RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp > TypeError: Can not create db_info table: database is locked Have you tried "yum clean metadata" yet? Also, if you are somebody who reboots often, you might want to disable/remove yum-cron in case it is installed.