[CentOS] yum is b0rked

[Kwan Lowe]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.*
>
> I have tried rm -rf rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* and rebuilt my rpm
> package database but that didn't move the needle on this problem
>


That actually won't do anything for yum.  Try:

yum clean headers

If that doesn't resolve, try:

yum clean all


Also, verify that your /var filesystem is writable and has a few gig
of free space.