On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 9:41:46 AM UTC-5, Glenn Poston wrote: > > We've disabled yum-updatesd on our nodes. > > Thanks John, > > Further investigation has shown that after any package update/install, yum > automatically runs the following command… > > /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum --security check-update > > I'm curious if this is the issue. >
That does look like a good candidate. I'm pretty sure it's not a core yum behavior, but rather one associated with an installed yum plugin, probably yum-security. You may be able to disable it via the Yum config file, or else you could just remove the plugin. > > Either way, it's odd that that the error is 'database disk image is > malformed' and not 'Existing lock on yum.pid' > > It's as if the yum is releasing the lock before the database is ready for > subsequent requests. > > That could be, but it could also be that the message is just erroneous. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
