[fc2] "apt-get update" and "yum update" hangs as root

[Mike Fedyk]

Giandomenico De Tullio wrote:
>> Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> Great, I found strace-4.5.4-1.i386.rpm in fc2 updates, but now "rpm - Uv
>> strace-4.5.4-1.i386.rpm" hangs also.  So it looks like that's the  
>> culprit.
>>
>> What now?
> 
> 
> stale rpm db lockfiles !?
> 
> rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db*

That's probably why rebooting fixes the problem[1].

I'll give that a try next time it happens (it's already happened twice 
on this machine).

1.  I don't like to reboot to fix a problem, but there was a fc2 kernel 
upgrade that came out, so I had to reboot anyway.

Mike