[CentOS] rpm and yum issues

On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 10:04 -0600, Monty Shinn wrote:
> I am having issues with rpm/yum on a centos 5.2 x86_64.
> 
> I am trying to update from 5.2 to 5.4.  During yum update, the
> application became unresponsive during the package search.  It had not
> begun to download any packages.
> 
> I tried to do a "yum clean all", but that wouldn't complete either.  I
> tried to do a rpm --rebuild, but that failed with a segmentation
> fault.
> Tried it a couple of times...  Reboot didn't work.  I copied the
> database files out of /var/lib/rpm to a safe location, then deleted
> the
> __db.* files.  Ran rpm --initdb.  That seemed to work.  Now, I've been
> running rpm --rebuild for around 18 hours.
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I would probably just stop the rpm --rebuild and copy everything back
from your backup of /var/lib/rpm and just...

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

shouldn't take very long and should be ok.

Craig


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