I had the same problem a while back. Found the following on a mailing list somewhere, can't remember exactly. Anyway, it's worked for me when RPM "hangs". HTH, dhardison <snip> · I can't upgrade any packages, run up2date or rpm (processes hang!). What is wrong? The RPM database sometimes gets stuck. One cause of this problem is when a process working on the RP M database is killed, which leaves lock files in place, limiting what further processes can do to th e database. So make sure such a process really is stuck before killing it - if a process is using mu ch CPU time (eg. as reported by top) it is probably still doing useful work. To free a stuck database; Make sure there are no processes trying to access the rpm database (such as rpm, up2date, redhat-con fig-packages) Remove the rpm lock files, rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* . Rebooting will do stages 1. & 2. automatically (2 . is done in the startup scripts). In many cases these are enough to free the stuck database. If the re are still problems; Take a safety copy of the database, in case things go wrong. (eg. cp -r /var/lib/rpm /var/lib/rpm.co py ). Try rebuilding the database (from the Packages data file) by running rpm --rebuilddb . If the databa se still doesn't work, and the db4-utils package was installed; Run cd /var/lib/rpm; db_verify Packages . This checks the underlying data format of this file. If there are errors, you can rebuild the Packages file from the good records by running cp Packages Packages.orig; db_dump Packages.orig | db_load Packages and repeat step 4. There is a good reference for this procedure at http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ -----Original Message----- From: psyche-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:psyche-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brian Curtis Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:30 AM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: RPM stops responding 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. -- Best regards, Brian Curtis -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.443 / Virus Database: 248 - Release Date: 1/10/2003 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
