On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Eric Wood wrote:
> <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.
> </snip>
according to the bugzilla report, a comment by jeff "mr. rpm"
johnson claims that the newest version of rpm at
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/
fixes all hang problems. i think we should all give this
version a good shakedown.
rday
