Okay, I have over 9 gigs of spare room on my main hard drive, so I don't think var is filling up. I've set prelinking to be off (I think), and yet still, YUM continues to freeze my computer. If I try to do a search or install, about half the time it will go nuts on the hard drive, I lose control of the mouse, and eventually I have no choice but to hard reset. What's wrong with YUM? Dave
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 22:25 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:> Okay, I have over 9 gigs of spare room on my main hard drive, so I don't > think var is filling up. I've set prelinking to be off (I think), and > yet still, YUM continues to freeze my computer. > > If I try to do a search or install, about half the time it will go nuts > on the hard drive, I lose control of the mouse, and eventually I have no > choice but to hard reset. > > What's wrong with YUM? >Probably nothing wrong with yum ... instead probably something wrong with rpm or maybe just the rpm database. Since you have installed packages outside the centos repos, it will be hard to track. try doing this: cd /var/lib/rpm rm __db.00* rpm --rebuilddb after that completes, try running yum. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050821/1eea709a/attachment-0002.sig>
>try doing this: > >cd /var/lib/rpm >rm __db.00* >rpm --rebuilddb >I got this message: [root at localhost rpm]# rm __db.00* rm: cannot lstat `__db.00*': No such file or directory Is this a significant error? Dave
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 22:25 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > Okay, I have over 9 gigs of spare room on my main hard drive, so I don't > > think var is filling up. I've set prelinking to be off (I think), and > > yet still, YUM continues to freeze my computer. > > > > If I try to do a search or install, about half the time it will go nuts > > on the hard drive, I lose control of the mouse, and eventually I have no > > choice but to hard reset. > > > > What's wrong with YUM? > > Probably nothing wrong with yum ... instead probably something wrong > with rpm or maybe just the rpm database. > > Since you have installed packages outside the centos repos, it will be > hard to track. > > try doing this: > > cd /var/lib/rpm > rm __db.00* > rpm --rebuilddb > > after that completes, try running yum.Beware though, removing the __db.* files (a cache) should be sufficient. You do not have to run rpm --rebuilddb if the cause of the poblem was the corrupt cache. Also, do NOT attempt to run rpm --rebuilddb with a corrupt cache in place, because this may cause your rpmdb to get corrupted. Often people complain that rpm --rebuilddb did not solve their rpmdb problems, while in fact rpm --rebuilddb corrupted the rpmdb. And a mere removal of the cache (__db.*) was sufficient to solve the problem. You have been warned :) Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]