Craig White wrote:
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Is there some "run recovery" that's different than --rebuilddb?
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no but perhaps your /dev/sdb7 has some corruption itself.
You might try something like 'shutdown now -Fr' to force an fsck on
reboot
Thanks for the suggestion, but no, it checks clean. Badblocks comes up
clean also.
I tried dropping to single user to run fsck, but couldn't unmount /var.
There were no open files on it, so maybe it's connected to whatever was
preventing yum from being killed; maybe a database block was locked or
something, I don't know.
It could be last time, because I rebuilt the database before I rebooted,
there was still this strange problem with the partition, so maybe the
database still was not clean.
So, I rebooted to single-user; rpm --rebuilddb; yum clean all
Now rpm is working again, but yum reports no updates are available, even
though there are packages announced for updates that should apply to me:
# yum list firefox gnome-python2, ...
Installed Packages
autofs.i386 1:5.0.2-17 installed
firefox.i386 2.0.0.10-2.fc8 installed
gnome-python2.i386 2.20.0-1.fc8 installed
lftp.i386 3.5.14-2.fc8 installed
libshout.i386 2.2.2-1.fc6 installed
libsoup.i386 2.2.103-1.fc8 installed
nspluginwrapper.i386 0.9.91.5-12.fc8 installed
system-config-firewall.noarch 1.0.11-1.fc8 installed
Yet, todays update annoucements list:
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: autofs-5.0.2-20 updates
Fedora 8 Update: firefox-2.0.0.10-3.fc8 updates
Fedora 8 Update: gnome-python2-2.20.1-1.fc8 updates
Fedora 8 Update: lftp-3.5.14-3.fc8 updates
Fedora 8 Update: libshout-2.2.2-2.fc8 updates
Fedora 8 Update: libsoup-2.2.104-1.fc8 updates
Fedora 8 Update: nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-13.fc8 updates
Fedora 8 Update: system-config-firewall-1.0.12-2.fc8 updates
So it looks like all these packages should be upgraded, but yum says no.
I remember at least a few of those being in the update list before yum
went berserk, so something sure looks off-track here.
What could cause that? Maybe the updates have not reached the mirrors
yet? Surely yum doesn't depend on that to determine what upgrades are
available.
Hmm... out of desperation, I ran another "yum clean all" and now it's
picking up all those updates. So I wasn't crazy--yum was just fouled up
again.
Suggestions welcome--let's see if I can actually do the updates this
time. Two down, five left.
<Joe
