On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
>
> Am 01.07.2013 15:36, schrieb m...@tdiehl.org:
>> I have a machine that recently had some file system corruption. fsck was able
>> repair the file system but I am getting the following error when I try to
>> do yum update:
>>
>> [Errno 21] Is a directory:
>> '/var/lib/yum/yumdb/e/2f883c08e3b596b66fcc19c6b4d73b11c9aaa43e-e2fsprogs-1.41.12-14.el6_4.2-x86_64/checksum_type'
>>
>> In searching Google, some suggested renaming the yumdb but that just results
>> in a traceback when I run yum
>
> you can do *without any issue*
>
> rm -rf /var/lib/yum/yumdb/*
> rm -rf /var/lib/yum/history/*
>
> and after *twice* "yum history new" there are no longer tracebacks
> been there, done that on a *lot* of machines mutiple times to
> get rid of this tons of old metadata with no benefit
>
>
After doing a little more poking around, I moved /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes
out of the way and the issue seems to be solved. Yum seems to have recreated
that directory and appears happy now.
Does anyone know of a downside to doing this?
Regards,
--
Tom m...@tdiehl.org Spamtrap address
me...@tdiehl.org
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