I have seen this on a redhat linux 9 box with an older version of rpm. This seems to affect both RHL8 and 9 machines. The fix was to: cd /var/lib/rpm rm __db.* grab a newer version rpm (4.2.1 for RHL9, I don't recall the version for 8) and do an rpm -U with the appropo version. If yum works after that, you are golden. You might need to do a reboot to clear processes locking up the rpm db. Hope this helps. Sean On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 10:49, Theresa Chen wrote: > Recently installed 2.0.1 on a dual 400Mhz processor, with scsi harddrives. > Whenever I do a 'yum update', it hangs at the "Resolving dependencies..." > part (last time it was 40 min and it didn't even start downloading the > packages). Anyone else with a similar problem? > > Thanks in advance, > Theresa > > ******************** > Theresa Chen > Research Assistant > Systems Group, > Computer Science Department > Florida State University > Carothers 120 > Phone: (850) 644-4019 > Phone: (850) 644-0516 > Email: therchen@xxxxxxxxxx > ********************** > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Sean O'Connell Email: sean@xxxxxxxxxxx Sr. Systems Programmer 114 Hudson Hall Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: (919) 660-5248 Duke University Fax: (919) 660-5293
