<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> Hi Eric, Thanks that seems to have done the trick. norbert <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us">eharrison@mail.mesd.k12.or.us</a> wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="midPine.LNX.4.44.0408132255320.11961-100000@k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, norbert wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Eric, As much as I would like to contribute more info the problem is that up2date, yum & apt all just hang after being launched. I've checked with both a "ps -aux rhn.... apt & yum" & by top & the tasks are running. There have been no changes since I last ran then on my system & up2date "informs" me that there are 10 updates available. Any suggestions ? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> If apt, up2date, & yum are all hanging, the only thing that comes to my mind is that your RPM database is locked up. Try this: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* Hopefully it is that easy. -Eric _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>