RedHat based systems (rhel/fedora/centos) use rpm/yum to install and upgrade packages. If the rpm database gets corrupted in some way it will break all the functionality of rpm and other tools that rely on it like yum for example. We have seen this either showing some errors on the console, or most frequently just by [...]
Linux System Admins Blog
System admins of Promet – an e-commerce, high availability Open Source web shop – share their findings
