Re: RPM hanging...

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Pekka K. Kurki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> During the installation of beecrypt-3.0.1 my rpm died - just hanging, I 
> had to kill rpm. Now Any rpm operation (like -q) hangs as well, so rpm 
> --rebuilddb as well... Can I still save the system or do I have to 
> reinstall it completely?
> 
> br
> Pekka
> 
> -- 
This is a perennial problem if you kill rpm. Remove all the:
/var/lib/rpm/__db* files and try rpm --rebuilddb
It should work.
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