[Yum] YUM Failing on 2 machines

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:17 +1300, Duncan Ritchie wrote:
> I have been having issues with YUM on two FC7 boxes. It fails during
> the loading of the primary.sqlite.bz2 files but it is not a consistent
> repository that causes the issue.
> 
> I tried: Change the kernel, disable http_caching, yum clean all, yum
> clean metadata, disabling some/all of the repo’s.
> 
> Sometimes (very rare) it works but will fail the next time it is run.
> 
> The first box is running kernel 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 and yum-3.2.8-2.fc7.
> It has a number of additional repositories. I have tried disabling
> them and also removing their config files.
> Box two is running kernel 2.6.21-1.3194-FC7 and yum-3.2.0-1.fc7. This
> just has the standard repos.
> 
> Here is the output from the first machine. 
> 



First things:
 - update yum 3.2.0 - that is very old and has a rather biggish number
of bugs
 - are you running out of disk space anywhere?

-sv