On Tuesday 08 October 2002 11:03, Wratmoko hadi Handoko SW wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:56, Oliver Pitzeier wrote: > > On Monday 07 October 2002 08:20, H M Kunzmann wrote: > > > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:20, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > On 04 Oct 2002 19:00:34 +0200 > > > > H M Kunzmann <herbert@dreamstroke.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > # > > > > # I was busy with an rpm -e when the system was subjected to a sudden > > > > # powerdown. > > > > # > > > > # Now, I can't use rpm. > > > > # Any calls to rpm just hang... > > > > > > > > killall the rpm commands, then rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__* > > > > > > > > this should get you working again. > > > > > > Perfect. This sorted out the problem. Thanks a million :-) > > > > I had the same problem and the same solution helped me. I wonder that no > > Control-C stopped the process and no timeout occured. => RH, that's now a > > point for your todo-list. :o)))) [ ... ] > Try to build rpm database, after kill proses > rpm --rebuilddb Nice idea. I had the same one. But as you can also read in an earlier mail in this thread -> It didn't solve the problem, because it also locked up. If "rpm -qa" or "rpm --rebuildb" don't work anymore, the only thing you can do, is to delete those above mentionen files... br, -- Oliver Pitzeier UNIX Administrator - Linux 2.4.18-14 i686 Load: 0.58, 0.64, 0.54
