Re: Rpm freezing

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> I tried to upgrade a bunch of packages with rpm.  The upgrade seemed to
> freeze (wasn't doing anything, wasn't using CPU), so I killed the task.
> 
> Now everytime I try to use rpm, it doesn't do anything.  I've tried to
> rebuild the database (rpm --rebuilddb), but it still doesn't do anything
> (just sits there).
> 
> Ideas?

I've had that on several occasions as well. It looks like rpm is waiting
for a lock to go away.

Anyway, my very un-scientific approach is to remove all __* file from
/var/lib/rpm and then it works again. I don't know why ;-)


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