On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Problems, problems...this is upgraded RH8, seemingly running like a > top. Until I go to remove a package that was installed during the > install. The rpm -evv hung at: > ... > I waited about 30 minutes. No go. No cpu being used at all, just > sitting there. kill -KILL was the only way to get the prompt back. > Now, any and all rpm commands hang. Including 'rpm --rebuilddb'. No cpu, no > sign of disk activity, nothing. If this was waiting for PID 23986 to > exit, there was no such PID when I checked. Kill any existing rpm processes and rm /var/lib/rpm/__* . ( you should try the new RPM packages mentioned here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74726 ) David.
