On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2003 17:11, Robert P. J. Day uttered: > > it's disappointing to see that rpm still has a talent > > for hanging in the middle of an install, necessitating > > a deletion of some files in /var/lib/rpm. > > > > any chance this is going to be fixed some day? > > Was this a normal install, or using a 3'rd party app such as apt? normal rpm install of sun's newest java sdk. the first attempt locked up, i did the ubiquitous "rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*", and it worked the second time. rday
