Re: Rpm freezing

[Paul Nasrat <pnasrat redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:42:23PM -0700, Laughlin, Joseph V wrote:
> I tried to upgrade a bunch of packages with rpm.  The upgrade seemed to
> freeze (wasn't doing anything, wasn't using CPU), so I killed the task.

It would be useful to know what version of rpm you were using.

> Now everytime I try to use rpm, it doesn't do anything.  I've tried to
> rebuild the database (rpm --rebuilddb), but it still doesn't do anything
> (just sits there).

Running with rpm --rebuilddb -vv will give you output, normally it will just be silent so can "appear" hung.

Ensure know rpm processes are still running.

rm -f /var/lib/__rpmdb*

Try a simple rpm operation:

rpm -q rpm

rpm -Uvh <singlepackage to update>.rpm

Paul