On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 10:15, Jim Hayward wrote: > 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. ;-) Nope, haven't used Windows since 1995. Perhaps linux is starting to remind me of the Macintosh instead. (evil grin) > 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. Hmm. What strikes me as odd is that CTRL-c does not kill the process, I have to kill -KILL from another shell. Thanks for pointing out the bug, as well as the trick to removing suspect rpm databases. You learn something new every day...
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