Re: rpm got stuck

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 13:01, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 12:49 -0700, Nina Pham wrote:
> > I was intalling some rpms, then it got stuck. I follow the instruction 
> > on the internet to delete the db files for rpm, and rebuild. So I 
> > deleted rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*, then
> > #rpm -vv rebuilddb
> > waring: waiting for transaction lock
> > 
> > and stuck there, so I do Ctrl_Z to exit. Then Do rpm -e  
> > kerio-mailserver, get the same warning, and error can not create 
> > transaction lock.
> > 
> > Do you have any idea what happened? and what I need to do to fix it?
> 
> Ctrl-Z suspends but does not kill the process.  "jobs" will show
> suspended and background processes.  "kill %1" will kill #1, etc.
> (kill -9 ... only if that fails).  Don't be too quick to think rpm is
> "stuck" - may seem to be doing nothing for extended periods but is
> actually just busy.  Try "top" in another console before acting.
> 
> Do "ps auxww | grep rpm" to see what other rpm processes may be hanging
> around.
Also , you might try installing it with rpm -ivh -> The h will print out
hashes when it's doing it's stuff. Sort of just gives you an indication
of progress.

> 
> Phil
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