On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 19:17, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Richard S. Crawford wrote: > > > I tried to remove an rpm from my system (RH 8) earlier this evening, but > > the computer seemed to have stalled. I killed the process, and began > > executing rpm --rebuilddb. So far it has taken nearly ten minutes to do > > this, and I'm hearing no disk activity on my computer. > > > > What could be causing this delay? Is it something that I should be > > panicking about? > > > > Just as well you put down you're using RH8. > > This is a know bug and due to stale RPM lock file. > > The answer is here: > > http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ Ed, Thanks! I removed the lock files, and everything went smoothly after that (although rpm --rebuild still took a few minutes). -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
