me at tdiehl.org wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> >> >> Am 01.07.2013 15:36, schrieb me at tdiehl.org: >>> I have a c6.4 machine that recently had some file system corruption. fsck was able >>> repair the file system but I am getting the following error when I try to >>> do yum update: >>> >>> [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/lib/yum/yumdb/e/2f883c08e3b596b66fcc19c6b4d73b11c9aaa43e-e2fsprogs-1.41.12-14.el6_4.2-x86_64/checksum_type' >>> >>> In searching Google, some suggested renaming the yumdb but that just results >>> in a traceback when I run yum >> >> you can do *without any issue* >> >> rm -rf /var/lib/yum/yumdb/* >> rm -rf /var/lib/yum/history/* >> >> and after *twice* "yum history new" there are no longer tracebacks >> been there, done that on a *lot* of machines multiple times to >> get rid of this tons of old metadata with no benefit > > Ok, I am still getting a traceback, obviously, the first traceback is expected > but the last one os not. Below is what I did: > Any ideas what I am missing? did you yum clean all ? often useful when yum freaks out