[CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

Wed Sep 14 22:26:03 UTC 2011
Sebastiano Pilla <sebastiano at datafaber.net>

Always Learning wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:56 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote:
>> I'm trying to update my CentOS 5.6 boxes to 5.7, and on every single one
>> of them yum is failing with a segmentation fault: the error happens when
>> yum is checking the 'base' repository.
>
> Have you tried
>
> 	yum clean all
>
>
> followed by
>
> 	yum update
>
> ?

Yes, I've tried it, with the exact same result:

[root at picard ~]# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Cleaning up Everything
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors
[root at picard ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities
Determining fastest mirrors
  * base: mirror.opendoc.net
  * extras: mirror.opendoc.net
  * updates: mirror.opendoc.net
base                                        | 1.1 kB     00:00
base/primary                                | 961 kB     00:00
Segmentation fault