On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 01.07.2013 15:36, schrieb me@tdiehl.org:

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I have a machine that recently had some file system corruption. fsck was able repair the file system but I am getting the following error when I try to do yum update:

[Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/lib/yum/yumdb/e/2f883c08e3b596b66fcc19c6b4d73b11c9aaa43e-e2fsprogs-1.41.12-14.el6_4.2-x86_64/checksum_type'

In searching Google, some suggested renaming the yumdb but that just results in a traceback when I run yum

you can do *without any issue*

rm -rf /var/lib/yum/yumdb/* rm -rf /var/lib/yum/history/*

and after *twice* "yum history new" there are no longer tracebacks been there, done that on a *lot* of machines mutiple times to get rid of this tons of old metadata with no benefit

After doing a little more poking around, I moved /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes out of the way and the issue seems to be solved. Yum seems to have recreated that directory and appears happy now.

Does anyone know of a downside to doing this?

Regards,