Sean, You method worked perfectly...thank you so much. I suppose that was the reason. --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 ********************** On 20 Aug 2003, Sean O'Connell wrote: > 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 >
