[CentOS] YUM is seriously fubar

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 22:25 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> Okay, I have over 9 gigs of spare room on my main hard drive, so I don't 
> think var is filling up. I've set prelinking to be off (I think), and 
> yet still, YUM continues to freeze my computer.
> 
> If I try to do a search or install, about half the time it will go nuts 
> on the hard drive, I lose control of the mouse, and eventually I have no 
> choice but to hard reset.
> 
> What's wrong with YUM?
> 

Probably nothing wrong with yum ... instead probably something wrong
with rpm or maybe just the rpm database.

Since you have installed packages outside the centos repos, it will be
hard to track.

try doing this:

cd /var/lib/rpm
rm __db.00*
rpm --rebuilddb

after that completes, try running yum.
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