Thanks, The rebuild actually did it. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:09 AM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RPM Installer dies. > > > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
