Help!!! Need to fix yum or reinstall.

[keeler1]

Whenever I try to use yum everything downloads ok but then freeezes up during the update process. Not just for any particular package but all of them. Anyways if someone could tell me how to fix this that would be great. If not how do I go about uninstalling then reinstalling yum. (I think that this might help but I am not quite sure)

[Mr Tux]

In console:

[root@localhost ~]# yum clean all

After that do:

[root@localhost ~]# yum update

[u-noneinc-s]

If that doesn't work try yum -d 5 update and see if yum provides any info on the problem. -d for debug, 1-10 for level of debug ... 10 giving the most info (I believe)

[Mr Tux]

Originally Posted by u-noneinc-s

If that doesn't work try yum -d 5 update and see if yum provides any info on the problem. -d for debug, 1-10 for level of debug ... 10 giving the most info (I believe)

Yes, and paste the info you get here in the forumthread so we can analyze it ...If you don't understand it.

[u-noneinc-s]

Originally Posted by Mr Tux

Yes, and paste the info you get here in the forumthread so we can analyze it ...If you don't understand it.

That goes without saying That said, I should have said it D'oh, I guess I just space out from time to time. Flash backs or brain damage or just old age.

[pod_uk]

Originally Posted by Mr Tux

In console:

[root@localhost ~]# yum clean all

After that do:

[root@localhost ~]# yum update

Thanks, had a simular issues and it worked.

[pod_uk]

spoken to soon, updated about another 6 files and stoped
tried
[root@localhost ~]# yum -d 5 update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Running "config" handler for "installonlyn" plugin
Yum Version: 3.0
COMMAND: yum -d 5
Installroot: /
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Setting up Package Sacks
Reading Local RPMDB
<---- it stopped here, also trying -d 10 stops at same point.
the software updater from within applications also stops before giving a list of updates.

If there is no solution to fix this is there another update program that easy ;-) to use

[u-noneinc-s]

Could be a corrupted rpmdb since that is where it's stopping, but that usually is pretty good about spitting out a rpmdb error (without needing the -d).
It could be the autoupdates (yumupdatesd or yum-updatesd). check system-config-services. Stop the updatesd thing and disable it then try yum again. This is just a guess since that usually gives an error that another instance of yum is already running, but if the updatesd just happens to be starting after you start to run yum (I don't know how often it runs) it could cause problems.

[keeler1]

After I have used the clean all command i try to update. And I get these errors when it is trying to read the primary.xml.gz file from the fedora extras repo.

extras    : ################################################## 4661/4661
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2264 blob size(43100): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(69) + dl(67472)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2264 blob size(43100): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(69) + dl(67472)
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#    2264 blob size(43100): BAD, 8 + 16 * il(69) + dl(67472)

Is the problem with this. Some of the updates that I need to install are from the extras repo. Will these errors cause yum to screw up when trying to install them even after it has let me download them.

[u-noneinc-s]

I have not seen this message before. You can google it and you will find some info but I don't know if it will help. I just did, and there was mention of rebuilding the db wwhich in the 2 threads I read, didn't help. but I'm stuck in a mental loop. I kept screwing up and killing the window so I gave up looking.

google for error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping and you will find some links. Hope they help.