[CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

Thu Sep 15 16:46:28 UTC 2011
Alain Péan <alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr>

Le 15/09/2011 18:37, sebastiano at datafaber.net a écrit :
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:33:39 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> sebastiano at datafaber.net wrote:
>>> The file /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite is only 20KB,
>>> whereas in the "normal" case I'd expect it to be 6.5MB. Somehow, yum
>>> is
>> you're not out of hard drive space on that partition, are you?
> Not at all:
>
> [root at picard ~]# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2              35G  3.1G   30G  10% /
> /dev/sdb1             1.8T  527G  1.2T  31% /data
> /dev/sda1             145M   34M  104M  25% /boot
> tmpfs                1005M     0 1005M   0% /dev/shm
>
> And there's also plenty of available space on the other 5 boxes which
> exhibit the same issue.
>

What if you delete (or save elsewhere) the primary.xml.gz.sqlite file ? 
If it is corrupted, it would do no arm, and perhaps it is no more used 
or regenerated if it missing ?

Alain

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