On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 17:30, Brian Curtis wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried to rpm -e my MySQL 3.x rpms in preparation for MySQL 4 > when I ran into a bit of trouble. > > After trying to # rpm -e mysqlclient9-3.23.22-6 I ended up having to > kill -9 the process after 15 minutes since it seemed to stop > responding. > > Now every time I try any rpm query/update/delete, the process goes into > sleep mode and has to be terminated with a kill -9. The output of ps > does not show any "rpm" commands running, and lsof shows the following > rpm-related files in use when rpm isn't stuck in sleep mode: > > /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rpm404module.so > /usr/lib/librpm-4.0.4.so > /usr/lib/librpmdb-4.0.4.so > /usr/lib/librpmio-4.0.4.so > > Any ides how I can get rpm responding once more? I'd like to avoid a > reboot, if at all possible. had the same problem and "fixed" it with a reboot dark magic: happened to me several time, but NEVER when installing rpms from /tmp, so now I copy rpms to /tmp before installing. Don't know if this is true or only random... Piero -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
