RPM fragged?

Ben Ricker <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:37:54 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
Organization Wellinx, inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I had a momentary bout of stupidity when I needed to install some kernel
sources. I installed the .src (rpm spec files) instead. To verify that I
had installed them, I kept trying to grep for 'src' and it did not show
up. After figuring out my mistake, I then ran 'rpm -ivh' on the sources.
The install hung (I waited nearly 15 minutes and the process was still
running). The source was there so I tried to ctrl-C out of the process
with no response. So I killed the RPM process.

Now, no rpm activity will work. The process is spawned but it hangs
there with 0:00 CPU activity. I tried to run an install, an erase, and
rebuilddb. All processes hung.

I am running Redhat 9 and RPM 4.2. Is there any way to address this
issue without reinstalling Redhat?

Thanks,

Ben Ricker
Wellinx, inc.
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