Re: Help! RPM chokes on tftp-server-0.32-4.i86.rpm

[bhighsmith att net]

I found an answer to my question on the general forum:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-August/msg01839.html

To work around the "RPM seems to hang" problem, run this
(avoid type errors!):

  rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
  rpm -vv --rebuilddb

Wait until it's done. On Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9, try not to
interrupt RPM or any of the packaging tools while they access the
RPM database.