** Reply to message from Barry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:18:35 -0400
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of RedHat Mailing List > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: rpm question > > > RedHat 9, fresh install. > > rpm -i perl-CGI-2.81-88.i386.rpm > > Entered the command and nothing happened for 10 minutes and it seemed my > session had locked up, so I disconnected and reconnected. The process > was orphaned, so I killed it. > > Now, just running rpm -qa doesn't seem to work. I entered the command > 10 minutes ago and it's still sitting there with no apparent activity. > > Any ideas on how to fix the problem? > > Thanks, > > -Ed > I have run into similar weird problems with rpm, sometimes just > rebuilding the rpm database fixed my problems. Rpm --rebuilddb as root > > Barry Johnson > Try doing this first (as root): rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* then if that doesn't work try: rpm --rebuilddb -- jb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
