^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^FWIW, whenever I recommend "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* ; rpm -vv --rebuilddb" myself, it is because experience has it that sometimes this has helped further than removal of the tmp files. You never know what the user has done to make RPM "hang".
I agree. While not necessary for the exact known causes of most hangs in rpm where it is necessary for kill -9, I'd recommend it to new users since it may help fix other problems, and in general it is always safe to do. I have seen cases where "rpm -qa" hangs halfway
Not necessarily. There is the imported-GPG-key-causes-rebuilddb-to-corrupt-rpm signatures in rpmdb problem. I don't know the Bugzilla # at the moment though.
I know about this very well, because they blamed ME for the problem at first. =)
Warren
