[CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Kahlil Hodgson wrote:
> On 16/09/11 08:22, Sebastiano Pilla wrote:
>> Based on what I'm seeing, I do not think that yum is downloading a
>> corrupt sqlite database, rather than it is creating a corrupt database
>> all by itself. I have however no definite confirmation of this and I
>> would like to have one before filing a bug against yum.
>
> Perhaps some python/sqlite/gzip library used by yum is
> broken/incompatible.  Do you have anything under /usr/local that may be
> overriding the distro packages?  Perhaps an NFS mount that is shared by
> all affected servers?

Has anyone in this thread - I may have missed some posts last night -
suggested yum reinstall yum?

        mark