Hi, On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:37, A.J. Werkman wrote: > While installing tftp-server and tftp client through the command "rpm -Uvh > tftp*.rpm" rpm hung after it had reached the 100% count on installing the > first rpm. > > After this every rpm command (like rpm -qa) hangs forever (well at least 15 > minutes). The only thing to stop the rpm-process is a "kill -9". <contrl>-c > on the controling console isn't doing much then. Known bug. 1 - kill all rpm processes (ps -ef | grep rpm) 2 - rm /var/lib/rpm/__db * That's it ... The rebuild is not necessary. > [root@werk root]# rpm --rebuilddb > error: db4 error(16) from dbenv->remove: Device or resource busy > [root@werk root]# http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83281 It's a harmless bug. > Then the "__db" files appear again, making rpm non responsive again. On > deleting these I can do an "rpm -qa" again. Here is the listing of my > "/var/lib/rpm" Check if you have killed all rpm processes. But the bug could come again ! So you have to do the process (kill - delete) one more time... and hope that you will be lucky this time. > Is my rpm-database that much corrupt now that I should consider a complete > reinstallation. That would make me feel bad, because I would be like a > Win-user (If something fails reinstall the system). No . No ! Even a rpm corrupt database could be rebuilt from packages. There is no reason to reinstall, except missing some habits ;-) > Is there a more linux-like solution to this problem? Read FAQ and you will find a lot about your problems. You have understood the wy to do it, and there is no reason (I think) that this should not work. Welcome on Linux. Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
