[Cialug] Fedora - the dreaded rpmq failure

[Tom Pohl]

I guess I didn't state it before, but in the cases I've seen of rpm  
databases becoming corrupt, the root cause has been surrounding yum  
(usually when repositories are getting updated or multiple  
repositories are unavailable (ok, there was one time a LONG time ago  
on a slackware box when I was playing with rpm and it's db got  
corrupt, but that was my fault)).  I love yum, but I still feel that  
it needs to be run manually because of the small percentage of the  
time when there are issues.

Ok, I found my FC6 box, and you're right there is no yum cronjob, but  
there is yum-updatesd in /etc/init.d.

Here's a quick link to someone else who suspects similar issues:
http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php? 
topic_id=33670&forum=10&post_id=148732

-Tom



On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:25 PM, David Champion wrote:

> I don't see that there's any yum related cron jobs on this box (FC6).
> I'm not saying that a conflict like this couldn't be the initial cause
> of the problem, but it seems that the end result is a corrupted  
> Berkely
> DB file, not a lock issue.
>
> -dc
>
> Tom Pohl wrote:
>> Sorry, I had a centos box that I was on when I wrote that.
>>
>> Looking at one of my Fedora Core 4 boxes, I wonder if there is  
>> conflict
>> between the cron.daily script yum and the cron.daily rpm script that
>> gives you a locking issue.  Looking at the run-parts script, it  
>> appears
>> that rpm would run before yum nightly.  Is it possible that the  
>> previous
>> night's yum script got hung up and the next night, rpm becomes grumpy
>> waiting for the lock to release?
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>>
>> On Aug 7, 2007, at 1:08 PM, David Champion wrote:
>>
>>> Tom Pohl wrote:
>>>> Bah, just turn off yum-updatesd and I bet the problem goes away :)
>>>>
>>>> Who really wants updates to automatically download / download &  
>>>> install
>>>> anyway?
>>>>
>>>> -Tom
>>>
>>> Not running yum-updatesd. This is the job that is hanging nightly...
>>>
>>> # cat /etc/cron.daily/rpm
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>> /bin/rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n'  
>>> 2>&1 \
>>>         | /bin/sort > /var/log/rpmpkgs
>>>
>>>
>>> Probably not mission-critical. I removed the script until I get this
>>> fixed. There's a nearly identical version of this script in Mandriva
>>> (just has the absolute paths removed from the bins), and it works  
>>> fine.
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
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