On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:39, Brian Johnson wrote: > I'm having trouble with rpm .. > > When I start it in any way (tried rpm -qa, rpm -Va, rpm --rebuilddb, rpm -Uvh ...) > it starts, shows up in top as taking 0% cpu usage and just seems to sit there. So > I've been killing the processes to get rid of them (kill -KILL pid) > This is a widely known problem. It's a shame this wasn't included in the release notes, as it affected RHL 8.0 as well and has been known for a while. To fix this, kill off any hung RPM processes and then run this command: rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.* Usually there are three files to delete. See the archives of this list (or the pysche-list), or Red Hat's bugzilla, for much more information. --Jeremy -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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