On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:18:31PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -----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. > I have done all that, but it took a reboot to get rpm to run properly again. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
