Thanks (and to the others that responded) I saw this solution in other posts but my symtoms seemed slightly different so I was relunctant to proceed Have done it now and all is well Jeremy Portzer (jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >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 | >\=====================================================================/ > -- Brian Johnson * This is where my witty signature line would be if I bothered to edit this line :) *
