common problem in yum

I’m at the linux-foundation summit right now and I’ve had a number of fruitful discussions with people who are able to point some specific issues with yum and frequently suggest many and varied ways to fix them. However, something I thought had been documented a bit but I wanted to mention was this:

If you find yum stalls out A LOT right after parsing arguments for various commands and/or that yum search takes a loooooooong time when you know it is not downloading from the network then you probably want to stop all yum and rpm-related processes and run as root:

rpm –rebuilddb

Then go to /var/lib/rpm and make sure __db* files are gone.

Run yum again and see if it makes things faster. I think it will.

Update: It’s been brought to my attention that others have documented this much better than I have:

http://people.redhat.com/berrange/notes/rpmrecovery.html

Go there to get the full story (even if it does say rhel3 at the top)

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