Re: rpm is well hung

[Jim Hayward <jimhayward earthlink net>]

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 00:45, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> Whups, nevermind, a reboot fixed it. 

reboot? under linux? Highly unlikely that was necessary. You have been
hanging around windows to long. ;-)

> > Have a new workstation up, running for only 3 or 4 days, and now any
> > operations with rpm hang immediately and never return.  

CRTL+c to kill the process and get the shell prompt back. The check the
output of "ps" to make sure there are not any other hung rpm processes
running. Kill them if there are. Then...

rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*

rpm --rebuilddb


I will guess and say you are running Red Hat 8.0. This hang is a bug. It
has not been fixed yet. I have had it happen to me a couple times. It
doesn't occur very often. I have had it happen twice in the three months
I have had 8.0 running and I have 4 boxes running 8.0.

 
Regards,
	Jim H