On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 11:40, Warren Togami wrote: > When rpm appeared to hang, did you check the running processes to be > 100% sure that rpm was not running anymore before erasing the locks? Well "check" wouldn't be exactly the right word for it, but I did leave it for quite a while to see if it did anything. What would be the best way to check - just look in System Monitor and see if the CPU > 0% for rpm? > Note that --rebuilddb should almost never be needed. I myself have > never needed it during rpm-4.2 through the Phoebe betas and Shrike. > Erasing the locks has been sufficient for fixing RPM problems for me. Good to know. Thanks. Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) =====================================================================