From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Description of problem: yum commands list, update, chech-update, info etc. get stuck while accessing file /var/cache/yum/development/primary.xml.gz.sqlite strace shows that it's constatnly executing brk() system calls and memory usage keeps growing until all physical and smap memory are exhausted, at which point it dies. I did yum clean all, but it didn't help. File /var/cache/yum/development/primary.xml.gz.sqlite gets recreated with zero size and yum still gets stuck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.5.1-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Additional info:
You aren't the first person to report this, you probably won't be the last, it's already been fixed, and it's not a yum bug anyways. Update python-sqlite.