> Subject: Re: I think I broke yum > > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:20 -0600, Michael Yep wrote: > > After starting yum it was doing a 300+ pkg update, and it never > > finished. Now I cannot run yum, and rpm seems to be broke too. > > In addition I cannot issue a Ctrl-C command, I must hit > Ctrl-Z and do a > > kill -9 on the yum process. How do I find out what yum is > doing and how > > to get it back to normal? > > > > This is what yum says now: > > > > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > > > > [1]+ Stopped ./u > > [root@localhost ]# ps aux |grep yum > > Try: > > su - > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* (that's two underscores) > rpm --rebuilddb > On three different FC6 machines I had the same thing happen. I used the commands: su - rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages rpm --rebuilddb yum clean all In all three cases updates went back to normal. Basically the same thing Rick suggested with the db_verify and the yum clean added in. They may not be necessary, but did work for me. After that yum update worked. Bob Styma
