RPM ate my RAM :)
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Dec 12 23:36:33 UTC 2005
Mark Greenbank writes:
> Hi,
>
> When I try and upgrade a particular package, shadow-utils-4.0.3-56.x86_64,
> rpm starts to chew at the machine eventually exhausting my RAM and swap.
> Has anyone else seen such a problem? Details are:
Randomly-deviant behavior from rpm is usually solved as follows:
rpm --rebuilddb
If this doesn't complete within an hour:
rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpm --rebuilddb
And if that doesn't complete within an hour, you're boned.
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