yum, rpm, pirut, pup won't run on FC6

[Tony Nelson]

At 9:21 AM -0400 6/19/07, Eric wrote:
>At 09:01 AM 6/19/2007, Eric wrote:
>
><EP>>>>>I did that.  There are four such files:  __db.000 through
>__db.003.  Of those, only __db.000 is closed; the others are open.  But, I
>can't find anything in "ps aux" that looks like it might use rpm,<<<<<
>
>As a followup ... When rpm, or a program that uses rpm, hangs up on me, the
>only way to terminate it has been with kill -SIGKILL (-9).  SIGHUP and
>SIGTERM don't work).  Killing with SIGKILL tends to be rather abrupt and
>unclean, and no doubt left some open files (lock files or other) around.

It risks the RPM database.


>I suppose a reboot is in order, wouldn't you say?  Maybe I can get over to
>the colo facility sometime tomorrow... at least the server is still running
>fine in all other aspects so I guess it's not a dire emergency (yet)...

Sure, a server can run for years without a working RPM.
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