--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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