-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 August 2003 12:15 pm, dave c wrote: > I know this may not be much to add, but I have had this happen to me > and a simple reboot solved the problem. Of course that might make me > appear that I'm in the same group as those windoze losers, but > hey...just thought I would let you know that worked for me. > > rpm -rebuilddb wouldn't respond, as well as any other rpm command. > Something magical must be happening to the rpm database at > bootup...would be nice to know what it is. The magic that happens at boot time is nothing more than removing the stale lock files. "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*" - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TqhYn/07WoAb/SsRAiz6AJ9HjLYr9KiICLB16ibOBC+toe//QgCgo/FS zQyMLwinnz5RnmGiZQV8hVc= =aSt6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list