Re: RPM hangs

Thanks for the info y'all :)

Micheal, I know the term 'lock files' should be fairly 
obvious, but what exactly do these files 'lock' ? 
where can I find more info on these?

Thanks a stack, 

Jason

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Fratoni" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:11 AM
Subject: Re: RPM hangs


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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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