[CentOS] Re: Network freezes - possibly yum?

Morten lists at kikobu.com
Mon Mar 26 21:50:19 UTC 2007


Miark wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:49:41 +0200, Morten wrote:
> 
>> I'd prefer not to. Yum is able to download files just fine,
>> it's the install process that breaks somehow. I just found
>> that the hang is due to yum taking up 100% and stays there for
>> like 20 minutes before it exits.
> 
> Maybe it's choking through bad data in the RPM database. Have
> you tried a "rpmdb --rebuilddb"?

Thanks for the tip. It didn't work but I googled your suggestion and 
found the underlying problem to be a sqlite/python binding issue. So I 
manually installed python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.x86_64.rpm and things work 
again :-)

Thanks.

Morten





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