-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:51:53 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Recently it was suggested that one install the chkrootkit rpm from: > http://download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.stable/chkrootkit-042-0.fdr.1.b.rh9.i386.rpm > > I dpwnloaded it and tried to install it. It got through the > preparation stage and locked up. I killed it. Now rpm -qa does not > work; rpm -Va does not work. I guess rpm no longer works. I am > frustrated. Any suggestions? That has nothing to do with the chkrootkit rpm. You have just run into the RPM-stale-locks trap. The way out (which has been posted to these lists maybe a hundred times already): <exit package tools, kill them if necessary, e.g. killall -KILL rpm> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* rpm -vv --rebuilddb Then try again. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/itBX0iMVcrivHFQRApK9AJ9de1tKvf8hO2HpLNA75i38tAspAwCfWmi7 O07KmCiN98YuOaZwjWeCF7E= =XUYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
