> The latest problem that I just encountered was when installing an rpm. > While installing, the rpm program crapped out. So, I went and killed > all the rpm process running (I used ps -alh | grep rpm), and proceeded > to restart the rpm installation. Same thing happened. Therefore, I > then went and tried to do an rpm query to see if it installed at all. > The same thing happened (no display, the rpm process just froze). I > even tried then to rebuild the database, to no avail. > I have seen this problem when using the Install Packages gui to install RPMs. I think the gui sometimes locks the RPM database and then hangs before unlocking it. I have had to kill the gui's python process and then get rid of the __db.### files (where ### is a three digit number, ie. __db.001) in /var/lib/rpm. After that any rpm command will work without requiring a reboot.
So far I have not seen any database corruption from one of these hangs. I am not entirely sure, but I think this happens more frequently when trying to install more than one RPM at a time using the gui. Either way, it is probably safer for now to use the command line to install RPMs. Hope that helps, Jon D. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
