root cannot use rpm, yum...
David Olsen
david.olsen at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 14:55:02 UTC 2004
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:30:13 +0530, François Patte
<francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> it works; if I try the same command as root: no answer and I have to kill the
> process (Ctrl-C doesn't work)
>
> If I use the command
>
> yum update
>
> as a normal user, it works untill I have to be root to perform the operation. If
> do the same as root yum hangs and I have to kill the process...
Sounds like an RPM or YUM process didn't finish right.
Could always try rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
-d
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