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. ---- 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.