[CentOS] Yum errors

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

On 07/01/2013 03:36 PM, me at tdiehl.org wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a 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.
>
> There are some files in lost+found but I am not sure what the above file
> should look like and inode numbers are not useful to me.
>
> Anyone have an idea how to fix this without reloading the machine?
>
> Regards,
>

You can delete that file without too much problems, according to 
http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/YumDB

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