RPM DB blocking...

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:28 PM -0600 1/9/07, Rex Dieter wrote:
>Kevac Marko wrote:
>
>> Often yum exits with segmentation fault and after this rpm db is
>> somehow blocked.
>> Any rpm or yum start freezes when connecting to rpm db. Only reboot helps.
>>
>> What can i do to avoid reboot and to unlock rpm db?
>
>rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*

Possibly your RPM database is corrupt.  As root, after removing the lock
files, "rpm --verifydb", and then "rpm --rebuilddb" if there are problems
and the Packages file is OK.  Or just "rpm --rebuilddb" as --verifydb
doesn't catch everything, if you don't care to know about errors.

If your database was OK, file a bug on yum at bugzilla.redhat.org, giving
the backtrace so it can be fixed.
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