yum eats up all the memory

[Botond]

Hi,
I'm running an almost fully upgraded FC5 (there were dependency problems with neon and openoffice.org-core so I couldn't upgrade neon, rpm, cadaver). Since the last update I'm unable to run yum (and the Software Updater GUI tool). After "sudo yum clean" another "sudo yum update" displays this:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras-dev: ################################################## 3/3
extras-development 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB 00:05
yum stops here, and starts to consume all the available memory until it eats up everything and the whole system dies. "sudo yum list" does the same: it eats up all my 640 Megs of memory.
Any ideas on how to fix yum?
Thx.

[smfinley]

You need an older version of sqlite. This is a known issue. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg00122.html.

[Jman]

And the story of tracking it down to sqlite: http://nasrat.livejournal.com/42829.html

[Botond]

Thanks, it worked. Now all I have to do is to wait until updates of "hal", "avahi" and "gnome-power-manager" come out because they fail to start now (they were OK after the DVD install).