On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:25:17 -0500, Michael Kalus wrote: > I have a rather strange problem and wonder if anybody else has > encountered it: > > It seems that on some RPMs under RH9 the RPM installer just gets stuck. > When I kill the process the system doesn't seem to be affected, but I > can't run RPM anymore until I reboot (though it now occurs to me that I > might want to see if there are any processes left running). Since Red Hat Linux 8.0, it can happen that RPM runs into stale locks. The work-around, which does not require a reboot, is to interrupt [or even kill, if necessary] the processes related to RPM and/or packaging tools and then remove the temporary files which are locked: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* Running rpm -vv --rebuilddb for safety reasons would be an idea, too. After these two steps, RPM should work again. > I upgraded to Fedora Core 1 yesterday and it shows the exact same > behaviour (I'd guess that the upgrade did not completely replace the RPM > stuff). It should not happen regulary. Verify that you have the correct version of RPM installed. -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
