[NCLUG] rpm database hiccup

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 11:42:37AM -0600, Mike Loseke wrote:
>did so using the flags -ivh and it behaved normally - ran, hashes out to
>100% then it kind of froze (the terminal). I had to kill -9 it after leaving
>it sit for like an error. Now rpm can't really do much without freezing
>in the same manner. I've tried a --rebuilddb with the same inaction. strace
>output on the command ends here:

Supposedly, they fixed the "hanging" problem with RPM with the 9.0
release, but I've still seen it.  The fix from 8.0 still seems to mostly
work...

killall rpm
<make sure that it's dead>
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
rpm --rebuilddb
<this generates an error for me, but I can then install the package>

I haven't researched this too far, to find out if there's something else
I should be doing instead, but this seems to let me get past it, and
since I'm running dbbackup I do have like 5 weeks of backups of the
/var/lib/rpm database stuff.

Sean
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