[WBEL-users] RPM follies?

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Joshua Kramer wrote:

>
> Has anyone run into a situation where any usage of RPM just sits there,
> idle?

Yes, with some older Red Hat versions.

> I think I may have corrupted the RPM database - I was running
>
> yum install mc
>
> and noticed that it was installing ALL packages, so I did a kill -9 to
> it. Now, whenever I do anything with RPM or YUM, it just sits there.

That's not good.  Are you sure it wasn't just yum downloading lots of
header files?

When Red Hat used to do this occasional (stalled rpm), the trick to get it
moving again was to kill rpm, cd /var/lib/rpm, and mv __db.00? to another
directory (like /var/lib/rpm/bak).  Then try using rpm to install/upgrade
a package.

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