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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
