Why yum commands throw "Segmentation Fault" after downloading repodata (primary.xml) ?
Issue
- While running
yum update, the following error occurs:
# yum update
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, rhnplugin
rhel-i386-server | 1.4 kB 00:00
rhel-i386-server5/primary | 3.3 MB 00:01
Segmentation fault
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6
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