On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 15:20 -0600, Michael Yep wrote: > After starting yum it was doing a 300+ pkg update, and it never > finished. Now I cannot run yum, and rpm seems to be broke too. > In addition I cannot issue a Ctrl-C command, I must hit Ctrl-Z and do a > kill -9 on the yum process. How do I find out what yum is doing and how > to get it back to normal? > > This is what yum says now: > > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > > [1]+ Stopped ./u > [root@localhost ]# ps aux |grep yum Try: su - rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* (that's two underscores) rpm --rebuilddb Wait for the rpm command to complete, they try your yum command again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - UNIX is actually quite user friendly. The problem is that it's - - just very picky of who its friends are! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
