[Yum] Intermittent yum problems

[seth vidal]

> [root at violet 02:08:43 yum]# yum -C list updates
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 22, in ?
>     import yummain
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 35, in ?
>     from config import yumconf
>   File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 17, in ?
>     import ConfigParser
> KeyboardInterrupt
> 
> [root at violet 23:48:20 yum]# yum  list updates
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 30, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 163, in main
>     (log, errorlog, filelog, conf, cmds) = parseCmdArgs(args)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/yummain.py", line 75, in parseCmdArgs
>     conf=yumconf(configfile=yumconffile)
>   File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 155, in __init__
>     self.yumvar['releasever'] = self._getsysver()
>   File "/usr/share/yum/config.py", line 291, in _getsysver
>     hdr = idx.next()
> StopIteration
> 

This means your rpmdb is either locked or in some way hosed.

-sv