--rebuilddb hangs opening db index
sean
seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 14:51:30 UTC 2005
sean wrote:
> I've a remote FC4 machine which had a bunch of duplicate packages
> installed. An earlier thread suggested I try synaptic over vnc.
>
> Worked pretty well. synaptic came up with a dialog showing duplicate
> packages. synaptic also showed a "broken" package, which it said it fixed.
>
> Then I ran - over telnet - yum remove pkg-x.y.z, which hung at the end:
>
> Transaction Test Succeeded
> Running Transaction
> Removing : lrzsz ####################### [ 1/12]
> [..............]
> Removing : mt-st ####################### [10/12]
>
>
>
> So again over telnet, I tried rpm --rebuilddb. That hangs also:
> rpm -vv --rebuilddb
> D: rebuilding database /var/lib/rpm into /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.11610
> D: creating directory /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb.11610
> D: opening old database with dbapi 3
> D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
> D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
>
> Checked ps aux, no yum synaptic or apt-get running. top shows no
> activity for rpmdb.
>
> NOW, what do I do?
>
Rebooted. It worked. Probably some locks.
sean
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