Re: RPM hangs
Michael Fratoni <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche |
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On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:15 pm, dave c wrote:
> I know this may not be much to add, but I have had this happen to me
> and a simple reboot solved the problem. Of course that might make me
> appear that I'm in the same group as those windoze losers, but
> hey...just thought I would let you know that worked for me.
>
> rpm -rebuilddb wouldn't respond, as well as any other rpm command.
> Something magical must be happening to the rpm database at
> bootup...would be nice to know what it is.
The magic that happens at boot time is nothing more than removing the
stale lock files. "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*"
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pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/
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