[Yum] rpmdb write File too large problem

Piavlo piavka at cs.bgu.ac.il
Tue Jun 15 16:11:13 UTC 2010


On 06/15/2010 06:56 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 18:47 +0300, Piavlo wrote:
>   
>>>>     
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>>> 1. Are you out of disk space on /var or /var/lib?
>>>   
>>>       
>> No
>>     
>>> 2. Do you have some sort of weird limit on that fs for filesizes?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> No it's ext3, and the original /var/lib/rpm/Packages files size is just
>> 33M and
>> failing /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.10789/Packages is 11M
>>     
> nuke the rebuildb directory and try it again.
>   
you mean delete the /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.10789/  directory?
Tried that already.
> you may also want to look to see if there are any stalled out rpm or yum
> processes running and kill them
>
>   
found no such processes
> then try another rebuilddb.
>
> if none of those work - you might want to ask the rpm devs b/c I don't
> know what else to try.
>
>   
Is there a dedicated mailing list for rpm problems?

Thanks
Alex




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