Tim Evans wrote: > The hang was indefinite; I left it sit all night and shell prompt never > returned. Process listing shows 'rpm' still running, even after logging > off > the terminal; ctrl-c does not kill the process either. Only 'kill -9' > will end it. > > In looking into this, I see all 'rpm' commands (even simple queries) hang > in > the same way. Man page doesn't mention it, but is there a lockfile > somewhere > that's holding things up? Or something else? rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* rpm --rebuilddb -- Rex -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list