rpm all wacked?

[duncan brown]

i stand corrected, but why are these lock files present even when there
isn't any rpm related program running?  and i've had this lock up without
rpm being kill -9'd or anything similar.

-d

William Hooper said:
>
> duncan brown said:
>> i must ammend my last post:
>>
>> that should NEVER work, you ALWAYS need to rebuild the rpm database
>> after removing those files.  **those are your rpm database files**
> [snip]
>>>    rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00*
>
> No they're not.  They are lock files.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097
>
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