** Reply to message from Eric Wood <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:52:01 -0400
> <snip>
> If you experience hangs in RPM, it is usually a corrupt database index.
> Fortunately, this is very easy to fix:
>
> # rm /var/lib/rpm/_*
>
> Just remove all files with a leading underscore ("_"), from the /var/lib/rpm
> directory. This will clear up 99% of failure cases. For that other <1%, you
> need more help than I can give.
Just a correction here: remove the lock files with the TWO leading underscores, not just one underscore. And if that doesn't help, then you probably have to rebuild the rpm database by doing (as root):
rpm --rebuilddb
jb
