On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 01:27:30PM -0500, Jim wrote:
FC12-X86_64/KDE
Yum update is crashing.
I did a yum clean all, but that doesn't help.
]# yum update
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
fedora/primary_db
| 12 MB 00:39
google-chrome
| 951 B 00:00
google-chrome/primary
| 1.8 kB 00:00
google-chrome
3/3
livna
| 2.4 kB 00:00
livna/primary_db
| 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free
| 3.8 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free/primary_db
| 344 kB 00:05
rpmfusion-free-updates
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db
| 159 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/primary_db
| 91 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
| 3.3 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db
| 40 kB 00:00
updates/metalink
| 14 kB 00:00
updates
| 4.4 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db
| 3.7 MB 00:16
Error: file is encrypted or is not a database
This could be your yum history database getting corrupted.
$ sudo rm -f /var/lib/yum/history/*
(This will of course keep you from rolling back transactions from your
history, as it'll be gone.)
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Matt Domsch
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