problem with mppe after kernel upgrade

[Daniel Hedlund]

On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:11, Lisa Durham wrote:

> I tried to use rpm -U instead of install and it just hangs ... does 
> nothing and I have to kill the process.
> 
> I also tried to use rpm -e on the old kernel module and it hangs up and 
> I must kill the process.

To get RPM going again, try the following:
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*

This should unlock the database so it'll start responding again.  It's
run each time the computer is restarted (it's in the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, about line 657 for me).

Cheers,

Daniel
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Daniel Hedlund
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