On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:00:25 -0400 (EDT), Robert P. J. Day wrote > 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. Does that mean that RH will soon be issuing it as a RH 9 update?