On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 12:01, Tom Diehl wrote: > Hi, > I am having some problems with yum on a couple of machines (not really > a yum problem). Occasionally one of the downloads gets corrupted and the > yum update fails. This is not really a big deal except it sometimes > takes me a couple of days to notice. At that point I go in and rm the > offending file and all is well. The other problem I am having is that > the rh8 systems get the dreaded rpmdb corruption that causes yum to hang > indefinitely. Again it is easy to fix but it sometimes takes a couple of > days to notice. For the corrupt download above I have added a yum clean > packages to the nightly cron job. I am not sure that is the right answer > but I have not come up with a better way. For the corrupt rpmdb I do not > have an answer other than to look at each machine every few days. Is there > a better way to manage this?? Icon and I were talking about this yesterday. wrt to the corrupted headers/rpms problem - I'm going to work on making yum do the following: download header, check it, retry up to 3 times to get a valid header from the server - if it fails 3 times then exit with useful errors ditto with rpms - if it fails and md5sum check 3 times then its seriously horked. Will that help? That should ameliorate the problem - It baffles me how often these sort of errors occur though. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong in the code for downloading files - there just isn't that much to do wrong. The corrupt rpmdb, seems to be an rpm problem and I'm not sure how to answer that. I guess I could add a routine to prune the __db files but wow does that seem like a hack. other ideas? -sv
