On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 00:15 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > Joe Smith wrote: > > ... > > I realize this is purely circumstantial, and I have no explanation why > > no one else is reporting trouble, if there's a problem with yum-updatesd. > > > > Since it still wouldn't prove anything to re-enable yum-updatesd and see > > the problem return (or not), and I don't care to fiddle with rebuilddb > > without a chance to get some solid evidence in return, I'm just going to > > leave yum-updatesd off, for now. > > ... > > And just now I had the database go belly up even with yum-updatesd > completely disabled, so it looks like that's off the hook. > > I wonder how the same hardware was stable all through f7, and f8 up > until about a month ago. Maybe a kernel glitch with my hardware? The > system is stable otherwise, but maybe the database exercises something > unusual. ---- almost sounds like an incomplete upgrade occurred, perhaps with the wrong version of berkley-db4 or python installed. Did you ever go through things like installing yum-tools and package-cleanup? Craig
