On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:23 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > You know when yum works its great but every once in a while it just sets my > teeth on edge by failing for no apparent reason and without any noticeable > diagnostic. This happened recently. I tinkered with the HD and had to cycle > power to do so. F7 came back up saying I have updates available. As usual I > just entered the root password and hit enter. segfault. WTF? try again while > crossing my fingers and wishing. segfault. Anyone else seeing this? two > replies, no, must be you, works for me. grump. Dig into past fedora-list mail > for ideas. What about yum clean all? Looks reasonable, ran it and it returned > pretty quickly with no errors. Ok, will the update work? no. Now it hangs > after downloading the packages and before installing. Reboot. no joy. well > what else is in the archives. what about > > [root@localhost ~]# rpm --rebuilddb > > seems like a reasonable move but it has been running now for 90 minutes. Is > that reasonable? anyone have ideas? diagnostics? or log files I can check? ---- seems 90 minutes to rpm --rebuilddb is longer than it should take. You could abort. Probably could 'rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*' and then 'rpm --rebuilddb' Then you might try 'yum clean all' to get back to square one Craig
