[CentOS] Yum segmentation fault updating from 5.6 to 5.7

Thu Sep 15 16:37:08 UTC 2011
sebastiano at datafaber.net <sebastiano at datafaber.net>

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.