[Yum] rpmdb write File too large problem

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 18:47 +0300, Piavlo wrote:
> >>     
> >
> > 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 may also want to look to see if there are any stalled out rpm or yum
processes running and kill them

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.

-sv