$ yum search kernel-vanilla Modules complémentaires chargés : refresh-packagekit Exclusion des paquetages dans la liste globale d'exclusion Finished erreur: erreur db4(-30987) de dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found =========================== Matched: kernel-vanilla ============================ kernel-vanilla.x86_64 : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating : system) kernel-vanilla-debuginfo.x86_64 : Debug information for package kernel-vanilla kernel-vanilla-debuginfo-common.x86_64 : Kernel source files used by kernel- : vanilla-debuginfo packages kernel-vanilla-devel.x86_64 : Development package for building kernel modules to : match the kernel kernel-vanilla-headers.x86_64 : Header files for the Linux kernel for use by : glibc $ rpm -q yum yum-3.2.14-10.fc9.noarch $ rpm -V yum S.5....T c /etc/logrotate.d/yum S.5....T c /etc/yum.conf (probably due to the system being updated at the same time)
looks like access to the rpmdb was unhappy while the update was occurring. I thought it would block on access if a write was occurring for some reason.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The problem here is user vs root access: in order to acquire a global read-only lock on the rpmdb, you need write access to the rpmdb environment, which a regular user does not have. So when executing without sufficient priviledges to grab a global lock, rpm runs with "private locking" (which for most practical purposes is the same as running without any locking) and yes, the privately-locking reading process can go kaboom when the database gets modified simultaneously. The only "easy fix" would be disallowing non-priviledged access to rpmdb but somehow I don't think that's what you want either :)
root access is need iff /var/lib/rpm/* is owned by root, rather than rpm:rpm. Run chown to other than root:root into the chroot's /var/lib/rpm, locking is instantly achieved, with no additional loss of functionality. All that is needed is write access to create lock's, either fcntl or posix shared mutexes, in /var/lib/rpm/__db* files.
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