You can strace the rpm command and find out where its stalling,
You may find some __db files left over in /var/lib/rpm
kill all the rpm processes, delete these files and try again,
it may then continue...
P.
Francesco F wrote:
> At 02.35 27/02/05, you wrote:
>
>> Nope...this was a plain Jane clean install...same as I've done
>> hundreds of
>> times. Initially, I had an Intel gigabit NIC in there and thought there
>> might be a problem with it. I replaced it with a Broadcom gigabit
>> NIC...same problem. Went down to an Intel 10/100 and the problems
>> persists.
>> I suppose I can deal with it. I've seen this before on an FC3 box
>> leased at
>> a datacenter; just wasn't ever able to solve it.
>>
>> Mike
>
>
> Hi, can you try to use rpm command, p.e rpm -qa? I installed yum on
> RH9 (with problem on rpm database) and, when i run yum, it stalled:
> the problem was rpm database. You can debug this option, run rpm -qa
> -v (for verbose). If this is your problem, you can rebuild rpm
> database with rpm --rebuilddb -v (for verbose)
>
> Francesco
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