rpm problems on SMP (dual core)

[Manuel Moreno]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:59 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> Is anybody else see problems with RPM on dual core cpu's. For a while it 
> worked but now it stopped working again.  rpm -qa directly hangs for 
> ever, all other commands also hang (so a yum update doesn't work).
> This seems to be an kernel problem, because last time i booted into an 
> older kernel and that made everything work again. So i thought the 
> problem was fixed, but it seems i was wrong.
> 
> - Erwin
> 
Try (as root...)

# cd /var/lib/rpm/
# rm -f __db.00[1-3]

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Manuel Moreno <manolo at miconexion.com>