rpmq hangs, rpm --rebuilddb gives segmentation fault
M A Young
m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Thu Jan 11 15:20:10 UTC 2007
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Don Levey wrote:
> Looking online, I see that one was to deal with this is to rebuild the RPM
> database via 'rpm --rebuilddb'. However, that seg faults on me. I tried to
> run 'yum clean' to no avail. Should I try 'rpm --initdb' instead?
Only if you want to completely trash your database and start again with a
blank one. Instead, try rebooting which should kill any stuck processes
and rpm lock files, then see if rpm --rebuilddb works any better.
Michael Young
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