-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 19:36:12 -0700, Mike Klein wrote: > There's a first time for everything... > > I was doing a remote rpm install of libfwbuilder using VNC, which > normally works fine, and this time my login session hung after > displaying 100% in rpm install process. I could not ctrl-c out of it (it > hung for over 5 minutes). From another window I noticed it hadn't > actually installed package yet. > > I seemed to have no choice but kill-9 the process...with the side affect > being that all of my rpm queries/commands now hang. When I run any rpm > command with -vv I am getting the following output: > > [root@mother security]# rpm -vv -qa > D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv > D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 > > (I must kill process after this...its hung) > > What can I do to get out of this situation? I haven't rebooted yet...is > this all that is needed? Do I need to rebuild the rpm db? I'm a little > leary of trying these options as I've never encountered this situation > before and am leary of unscheduled downtime... I assume this is on Red Hat Linux 8.0, 9 or Fedora Core. Make sure, rpm is killed. Then run rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* rpm -vv --rebuilddb When it seems to hang again, repeat above steps. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jLpJ0iMVcrivHFQRAtqbAJ4mFr476agAOm8pcNdDbHiiXWcc3gCfTpOC bb3gN5dxKPu/2zz5pK1FGEM= =iSv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
