TIP: yum hangs on futex()

[Paul Lussier]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:

> To fix, this or any general case of BerkeleyDB corruption:
>
>    kill any processes that look like they're waiting on the rpm database
>    cd /var/lib/rpm
>    db_recover

This is also how you can fix your subversion repository if you ever
get into that bind.  Svn originally used a berkleydb back-end and
occasionally would suffer from a similar problem.

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Seeya,
Paul
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