RPM hangs and cannot rebuild

[Chris Garringer <chris garringer tic toshiba com>]

I got the newest up2date packages to load the SSL certificates a RH9, a
RH7.3 and 2 RH8.0 servers (so far).  All rpm installs worked except for
one of the RH8.0 boxes.  The rpm -F up2date... just hung.  After about
10 minutes I ran rpm -qa in another window.  It also hung.  After 10
minutes of that (20 total on the rpm -F) I had to kill -9 both
processes.  rpm --rebuilddb hung, and so does rpm --initdb.  Looking at
the archives I saw references to /var/lib/rpm/rpmdb... programs.  None
of these are present on any of my RH8.0 servers.  What do I need to do
to rebuild the rpm database?  RPM version 4.1
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Chris D. Garringer
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Tel.  713-466-0277 x3756
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