On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:04, Warren Togami wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 09:09, Tuan Hoang wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems like my RPM database is either stuck or confused. What were the > > commands to delete & rebuild it? Also does anyone know what's causing > > this problem? > > > > It seems to have happened when I rebuilt a SRPM and then tried to install > > the resulting binary RPM. > > > > Thanks, > > Tuan > > rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__* > rpm --rebuilddb > > I think rebooting will do the first step, but not the second step. I've been having issues with rpm also. It seems to occur when I use up2date at the command line to install a program. $ up2date squirrelmail It gets the package, and begins installing, and hangs, forever. I can kill -9 the process, but the database is frozen or something, and no other rpm commands will work. They all hang forever. The instructions above would probably fix this. I've found that a reboot cleans everything up. (I couldn't remember which files to remove). I did not have to rebuild the database, all worked well, except that after installing squirrelmail, I believe it was installed, but not in the rpm database. (Easily fixed). Just my two cents, Ryan -- Powered by Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
