[CentOS] yum update fails: CentOS 5.2

[Spiro Harvey]

> tried deleting /var/lib/rpm/__* after killing all yum processes?

Yum has command line options to do its housecleaning which I would
try first. 

yum help clean


What does deleting the __db files do that the yum clean all doesn't?
(which I notice doesn't delete those specific files)

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